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Interview Guide

Rachel Kirkland

January 6, 2019

Interview Guide

Research Question: How do legal professionals describe their experiences with misinterpreted eye witness testimony?

Type of Approach: Phenomenological Approach

Interview Questions

1. What enjoyable moments have you had in your legal professional career?

2. Based on the number of years you have been a legal professional, do you feel this has helped you understand the misinterpretation of testimony?

3. Based on your experiences, describe the types of situations have you encountered with the misinterpretation with eye witness testimony?

4. How has the lack of experience in an area has hindered you from understanding the misinterpretation of testimony?

5. Tell me about how you were wrong regarding the accuracy of eye witness testimony?

6. Tell me about how you were right regarding the accuracy of eye witness testimony?

7. Describe your legal experience when it comes to the problems associated with an eye witness regarding the inability to recall specific events of the crime?

8. How would you describe the confidence level of eye witness that had proven weaknesses in their testimony regarding memory recall?

9. Describe how the eye witnesses demonstrated inconsistencies during cross examination when it comes to how the eye witnesses recalls the events of the crime?

10. In your experience as a legal professional, how would describe intentional and unintentional representations of the recall of events when it comes to eye witness testimony?

11. In your experience, how would you describe the strengths and weaknesses regarding the accuracy of recalling the events of a crime?

12. Describe your experiences regarding how eye witnesses did not describe the criminal accurately in a line up?

13. How would you describe the confidence level of the eye witnesses when a suspect is found to be wrongfully acquitted or wrongfully convicted?

14. What do you think are contributing factors that interferes with the eye witness’s ability to accurately identify a suspect in a line up?

15. In your experience, how would you describe experiences when the eye witness’s testimony is not consistent to the person, they identified in line up?

16. When conducting eye witness interviews, how would you describe the setup of the interview questions?

17. In your experience, what are the routine questions that are generally conducted during interview questions?

18. In your experience, how would you describe the effectiveness of the interview questions that are implemented from the eye witnesses?

19. In your experience, how would you describe the patterns that emerge from the interview questions from the eye witness in which you suspect deception is present?

20. Is there anything else that you would like to add when it comes to your experiences with problems associated with eye witness testimony?

Potential Survey Questions

1. Are you male or female?

2. How old are you?

3. State your education.

4. What is the specific title of your occupation as a legal professional?

5. How many years of experience of you had as a legal professional?

6. What type of crime are you most experienced in dealing with?

7. What is your area of expertise?

8. What would you consider your strengths in your legal professional experience?

9. What would you consider your weaknesses in your legal professional experience?

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*Based upon the answers to the survey questions, the interview questions can be altered. In order to have an in-depth questioning, the interview process and questions are subject to change. As I understood, it is important not to have a predetermined set of questions that cannot be altered.