- published: 30 Jun 2016
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A witness is someone who has, who claims to have, or is thought by someone with authority to compel testimony to have, knowledge relevant to an event or other matter of interest. In law a witness is someone who, either voluntarily or under compulsion, provides testimonial evidence, either oral or written, of what he or she knows or claims to know about the matter before some official authorized to take such testimony.
A percipient witness or eyewitness is one who testifies what they perceived through his or her senses (e.g. seeing, hearing, smelling, touching). That perception might be either with the unaided human sense or with the aid of an instrument, e.g., microscope or stethoscope, or by other scientific means, e.g.,a chemical reagent which changes color in the presence of a particular substance.
A hearsay witness is one who testifies what someone else said or wrote. In most court proceedings there are many limitations on when hearsay evidence is admissible. Such limitations do not apply to grand jury investigations, many administrative proceedings, and may not apply to declarations used in support of an arrest or search warrant. Also some types of statements are not deemed to be hearsay and are not subject to such limitations.
I put love in the young boy's eyes
Some were running out of the future
That Kind of feeling's so hard to define
Embracing poverty and corruption
Just to mask to clean up the...
We're sitting in the manor tonight
The web of conquest lay all around
Witnesses - children by moon bright
We were witnesses
We were witnesses
Watching on
There's talk of life
Promises written in laughter
Just like a man who decides to be cursed
Driving on a course of correction
He lights a spark so light up the torch
Once stranded by the hands of discretion
His step was drawn by the fire within
Kept burning by his faith in redemption
We were witnesses
We were witnesses
Watching on
He lights a spark so light up your torch
Now carried by this form of expression
Our step was drawn by the fire within
Kept burning by our faith in completion
We were witnesses
We were witnesses
Watching on
And on and on
And on and on