What is "hostile witnesses"

Usage examples of "hostile witnesses".

In it, I can accept invitations to all but the snootiest of cocktail parties, pose as a mourner at any funeral, make court appearances, conduct surveillance, hustle clients, interview hostile witnesses, traffic with known felons, or pass myself off as a gainfully employed person instead of a freelance busybody accustomed to blue jeans, turtlenecks, and tennis shoes.

We're trying to get as many UAESers as possible to volunteer as witnesses, and hostile witnesses--subpoenaed ones--tend to try to assert their innocence by not retaining counsel.

Here's what you expect: the dead ends, bureaucratic bullheadedness, the cul-de-sacs, trails that go nowhere or simply fade into thin air, denials, prevarications, the blank-eyed stares from all the hostile witnesses.

And one is that hostile witnesses shouldn't be asked leading questions.

They would prove hostile witnesses even if they hadn't fallen under the mass hallucination that the planet was self-aware.

She'd interviewed hostile witnesses who'd been more generous with details.

Almost all trial lawyers browbeat hostile witnesses, but Chotas coddled them.