Let's say the officer admitted they found the gun we described when they searched the suspect. He admitted this. He tried to back track as to why he was released. He couldn't come up with a reason. We have the 911 call of the guy holding us at gun point, because you can hear the guy in the background being the aggressor, and us in the background telling him do you see our hands, they are up in the air, we don't have any weapons. Some guy held us at gun point and got away with it. The conversation with the cop on the phone with my witness revealed that they did find the exact gun we described. Yet somehow they let him go....
The conversation on the phone does not prove diddly squat. You could all have been reading from a script for all someone on the other end of the phone knows.
Wait, so your statements over a phone call can’t be used as evidence in a court case then?
The judge and/or jury is free to give the statements over a phone call as much weight as they think they deserve. But they are not anything even remotely related to "proof".
Such recordings ARE "evidence," however. Evidence that would be submitted in an attempt to prove some element of the offense, I imagine.
I agree that the phone conversation is hard to be admissible in the court of law. I can call you up and say that I promise to do some work for you but without a written contract its hard to enforce anything verbal. I could even promise my friend that if I win the lottery he will get half. But unless its in writing its inadmissible in court.