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Obtaining Prisoner Witnesses
Loaded on Dec. 15, 1994
published in Prison Legal News
December, 1994, page 10
This case involves an effort by state government defendants in a civil rights suit to obtain the presence of a witness to testify on their behalf. The case provides a useful discussion of writs of habeas corpus ad testificandum, whereby parties to civil or criminal actions can ask the court ...
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