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Witness Preparation Techniques for Prosecutors What makes an officer an effective Witness in court? That is a continuing question posed to several judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and officers and this paper covers the highlights from the responses. Those answers, which are the subject of this paper, are particularly interesting because they are very similar. There seems to be total agreement on what helps and what hurts an officer s effectiveness in court. It is also interesting (but not surprising) that everyone interviewed stressed one particular characteristic, which gives weight to an officer s testimony : professionalism.
2 PREPARED Everyone interviewed emphasized the importance of preparedness. One officer said: “I think many of the problems with officers’ testimony are caused by the
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