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can you be forced to be a witness hyleri kay here with shadow anyone calm and the creator of the investigators ultimate guide series premium private investigator training from someone who's been there and done that can you be forced to be a witness yes absolutely you say that doesn't seem right it doesn't seem fair it happens all the time and what this is and it comes back to kind of process serving if you think about it for a moment you can be summons to appear in court to testify during a trial a case sometimes a pre-hearing and when you receive one of these summonses you have to honor it if you don't want to honor it contact an attorney they can either delay it or get you out of it they certainly can direct you in the best way to answer the questions and help your case or if you're being called this what happens a lot of times with this being forced to be a witness being forced to testify is when someone you know or someone around you has done something that they're being charged with so perhaps there was a fight your buddy got in a fight and you were right there they may want you they may force you to come and testify and be a witness in court as to what led up to and what happened during the fight what happened afterwards even though you don't want to and you're afraid it's gonna make your buddy look bad if in that case you know I'm not a lawyer I'm not giving legal advice contact an attorney and they can help you out and they can direct you in a way that's gonna be best for you there are a variety of places that you may have to testify not just in court in a trial you might be called to testify in a pre-trial hearing which is gonna have a same kind of feel if you were just dropped into the middle of one not knowing what was going on it would feel kind of like a trial you have the judge you have the prosecution the defense you're up on a witness stand you're sworn in all those types of things you can be called as a witness during a deposition so this is not a trial but it is sworn testimony a lot of times this is done in a law office where your counsel using counsel will be there there'll be a stenographer or way of recording this you'll be sworn in again to answer truthfully under oath and then there's also what's called interrogatories which are written questions that are sent to you that you fill out and return if you do get summons then you do not want to appear again contact an attorney a lot of times there's some fine print on ways to delay this or to even try to avoid having to appear at all there are certain circuit for that summons to be valid and this is something where Process Servers you have to know about these things and getting these summonses and even subpoenas to people in a timely manner if you're delivering things you know the day before the trial or the day before they're called to appear that they may not be compelled to appear so as a process server if you're a private investigator serving process or just a straight-up process server make sure you're getting these things out in a timely manner as I described in the investigators ultimate guide to process serving you learn more about that over at shadow anyone comm /ps it's for processed serving in the meantime yes you can't be forced to be a witness and so good luck with that I have a video out there on must know tips for testifying you will find extremely helpful maybe even kind of calming for you you get you prepared for that type of thing I highly recommend you look for that and and just wrap it up this is Larry Kay with shadow anyone calm remember do the right thing even if it's the hard thing