What Is the Forensic Statement Analyst Trying to Achieve? Forensic Statement Analysts carefully examine the words offered by witnesses and suspects in an effort to determine the following: 1. Is the writer (or speaker) more involved in the event than he or she might like us to believe? 2. Are there relational problems between the writer (or speaker) and the victim who is the subject of the case? 3. What are the hidden difficulties between the writer (or speaker) and the victim in the investigation? 4. Was the writer (or speaker) actually doing what he or she claimed to be doing at the time of
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