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Court Upholds Denial of Prisoner Witness Fees
Loaded on July 15, 1994
published in Prison Legal News
July, 1994, page 12
In 1991 a unanimous Supreme Court held in Demarest v. Manspeaker, 111 S.Ct. 599 (1991) that prisoners were entitled to witness fees whenever they testified in federal courts. Just before leaving office George Bush signed into law a modification of 28 U.S.C. § 1821 which forbade paying prisoners witness fees. ...
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