have you ever been a witness to a crime?
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Yes.\n\nI witnessed an altercation between people in two cars.  One car had a 20-something guy and his mother, and the other had this muscle-head/roid-ragey dude.  The first people pulled to the median after this guy was tailgating them and honking and stuff, and the other guy pulled into a parking lot nearby.  He got out of his car in a rage, ripped off his shirt (he was very muscular and apparently really proud of it), and he went running over to the other car and slammed his hand into the side of it so hard that it put a dent in the metal of the door.  He also reached in and tried to punch the guy inside the car.\nI called the police and reported the incident.  They took a statement from me at the scene.\nMonths later, someone served a subpoena on me (I was going to have to testify about the incident) but then I called back and they said it had been resolved.\n\nI also witnessed a hit-and-run accident involving minimal damage.  I turned around and followed the car that had broken the right-of-way (he ran a red light and got clipped by someone who had the green, but he kept going).  I got his license number, went home and called the local police for that area.  They thanked me and told me that someone had indeed reported being hit there.  I told them what I'd seen and offered to be a witness but they did not end up needing me, apparently.\n\nI'm no snitch, but I don't like it when people do harm to other people, or get all aggro on them, and don't get in trouble for it.  People need to be responsible for their actions, and I have no qualms about telling what I saw when someone does a dickish thing to someone else.\n\n\n-Jeffrey
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no.  Why are you asking?  Have you?  If yes, how many times?  If more than one time, turn yourself in!
596198
I have many times. I was the jailer. Much more fun that way... LOL
534177
I've been "accused" of that myself.\n:)
331999
You can't witness to someone unless you are a witness.  If you are, then it comes without effort.
282180
Sure have and it wasn't the best experience in my life I can tell you that. Was being charged with two felonies. Could have faced 20 yrs in prison. Both charges were dropped though. \nA shout out to all the girls in Unit M, county jail........J/K.
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Hi\nAs far as I know, it is against the law without peole knowing. It also wont be used as viable evidence in any court/tribunal.\n\nYou should, by law be entitled to a witness. IS someone stating otherwise?
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What do you think? \n\nI guess the time it would be OK is if the witness was asking for clarification:\n\n"What did you see that night?"\n"You mean on the Saturday night?"
816658
You are to be a witness,  a grand jury will question you about what you know,  you are required to answer them unless you are involved in the crime you are testifing about.\n( and if they give you imunity, you are still required to testify)
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I have a couple of times. Once because my friend fainted and we couldent get him to wake up, once because my friend almost got shot by this psycho and once when I was like five years old becuase I thought it was fake. Random but yeah.
411496
yes most deffinately. a defendant has the right to confront their accusers. this is why we have the witness protection program. more or less the government changes your identy and sets you up somewhere else to live. however these deals are made prior to your testimony and generaly reserved for people who can give up the goods on major crime figures or anyone whos life is in iminate danger for testifying this is a very hard status to get.
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i was a juror many moons ago and let me tell you it was a farce!\ni was approached by a defence witness and to cut a long story short she ended up serving 6 months. the girl didn't tell me anything i already know and yes she shouldn't of approached me, but i think she was desperate. she also had a 6 week old baby who was put into care for the length of her sentence. The reason for the confidentiality is so that outside influences don't cloud your judgement. the decision should be entirelly upto you, on whether you convict or not. i know that after the case my husband would've voted differently to me so if i had of talked to other people then i may of been swayed
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I had my door kicked in by the police and my house was destroyed during their search. They cut open my couch, put holes in my walls looking for drugs that were not there. \n\nThe address on the search warrant showed the house next door.\nOOPS\n\nThen they arrested me an took me to jail for 20 hours to make sure "that I couldn't tip off the neighbor that the warrant was really for"\n\n\n4 years later I just happened to get called for a jury duty with a case that was almost identical to what happened to me and quite frankly I would have voted to hang the police in that case.
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Of course I would beleive you. So are you going to tell that it happened to you or is this a hypothetical question?
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I think that one thing that might help them to improve would be to have the witness view the line-up as soon as possible.  Every minute they wait makes it that much harder for a witness to make a positive identification.  They only time I have been asked to view a line-up was 1 1/2 months after the incident.(I didn't do it because I wasn't sure)
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witness statements? not sure i really get the question
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I know of one with a criminal record who started a "newspaper" in a town. Every time he was stopped (always with cause) he'd write something nasty. He'd publish outright lies and slanderous things as 'fact' then scream freedom of the press when criticized. \n\nI've had - quite some years ago - a couple tickets. And you know what - I deserved it. I wasn't paying attention to speed and was driving too fast. Few things are important enough that an extra 5 minutes is an issue. \nI've also seen both sides...for a while in another state had an older piece of crap car and ALWAYS got pulled over. I mean 2-3 times a month and seldom drove more than 5 miles. I know why, though no one would admit it. And it wasn't *me* - I'd drive the same way in another vehicle and wouldn't get stopped. The car wasn't illegal but was suspect. Was that the cops fault? no. \n\nI can say there were people in that city that had FAR worse attitudes than the police officers.