Calling and interrogation of witnesses by judge
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case State v. Carprue (2004)
Most recently applied in Aurora Consolidated Health Care & Sentry Insurance v. Labor & Industry Review Commission (May 2012)
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(1) CALLING BY JUDGE. The judge may, on the judge’s own motion or at the suggestion of a party, call witnesses, and all parties are entitled to cross-examine witnesses thus called.
(2) INTERROGATION BY JUDGE. The judge may interrogate witnesses, whether called by the judge or by a party.
(3) OBJECTIONS. Objections to the calling of witnesses by the judge or to interrogation by the judge may be made at the time or at the next available opportunity when the jury is not present.
Official source: Wisconsin State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Wisconsin statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.