Interviews: - Objective: purpose is to obtain Information - Minimal legal requirements; no rights warnings - cooperative relationship between interviewer and subject likely - no guilt - moderate planning - Most Important: private and semiprivate; distraction could cause witness to forget key info
- Interrogations - Objective: purpose is to test information already obtained, obtain valuable facts; eliminate the innocent; identify the guilty; obtain a confession - extensive pre interrogation legal requirements; rights required - hostile relationship likely - guilt suggested - extensive planning - absolute privacy
