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1 Uniform Act to Secure the Attendance of Witnesses from without the State in Criminal Proceedings 1 (1936)

handle is hein.agopinions/uasaw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1 The section on removal of witnesses from one state 2 tj another for Criminal Cases met at the Bar Association 3 of the City of New York Building, New York City, Saturday 4 afternoon, November 3u, 195, under the Chairmanship of 5 the Honorable John J. Bennett, Jr., Attorney General of 6 New York, and considered in detail the proposed drafts and 7 comments thereupon. 8 Submitted by: 9 John Marshall College of Law, Jersey City, N.J. 10 Idinnesota Lavo School of dinnesota, 11 New Jersey Lav; School of Newark, N.J. 12 The folloving draft was finally agreed upon and 15 adopted by the Section. - 14 UNIFORM ACT TO SECURE THE ATThNDANCE OF 15 VITNESSES FROM VITHOUT THE STATE IN 16 CRIMINAL CASES 17 Be it enacted. (Insert here the proper enacting 18 clause for the State.) 19 SECT'ION U - 20 Witness - as used in this act shall include a person 11 whose testimony is desired in any proceeding or investigation 22 by a Grand Jury or in a Criminal Action, Prosecution or 23 Proceeding. 24 The v.ord State shall include any Territory of the 25 United States and District of Columbia. .6 SECTION 1 - 27 SUMMONING WITNESS IN THIS STATE TO TESTIFY IN ANOTHER 28 STATE. If a judge of a court of record in any state which 29 by its laws has made provision for commanding persons within 30 that state to attend and testify (in criminal prosecutions) 31 in this state certifies under the seal of such court that 32 there is a criminal prosecution pending in such court, or 33 that agrand uryinvestigatiorn has commenced or is about 34 to-commence. that a person being within this state is a 35 material witness in such prosecution, or grandxury_ 37 investigat;ion, and that his presence will be rekuired 38 for a specified number of days, upon presentation of such 39 certificate to any judge of a court of record in the

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