The witnesses, he said, watched helplessly or tried to wrestle the cord away.

"Your Honor, in all fairness, the witness is trying to find the information."

In such cases the witness can try to identify the voice, but the best evidence is an admission by the offender that he was the caller.

Along the shore, other witnesses were trying to point out the spot where the man had disappeared.

Only one witness, who had a history of hallucinations, took the stand to describe the shooting, and subsequently, tried to recant.

Recently, though, psychologists have found that when witnesses try to describe a face, they often distort their memory of it.

The witness tried to help, but the man shot himself.

One witness, Stephen Lieberman, 20, told the jury that he had seen the beginning of the attack and had tried to intervene.

The witness will try typically to explain and clarify, which sometimes reveals weakness in the witness's statements of fact.

Another witness tried to follow the Lincoln as it fled but could not catch the killer(s).