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2009 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 421 WITNESSES
421.620 Court order.
Download pdfhis attending and testifying are not adverse to the interests of this state or to the health or
legal rights of the witness, that the laws of the state in which he is requested to testify will
give him protection from arrest and the service of civil and criminal process because of
any act committed prior to his arrival in the state under the order, and that as a practical
matter the possibility is negligible that the witness may be subject to arrest or to the
service of civil or criminal process in any state through which he will be required to pass,
the judge shall issue an order, with a copy of the certificate attached, directing the witness
to attend and testify, directing the person having custody of the witness to produce him, in
the court where the criminal action is pending, or where the grand jury investigation is
pending, at a time and place specified in the order, and prescribing such conditions as the
judge shall determine. Effective: June 19, 1976
History: Created 1976 Ky. Acts ch. 213, sec. 3, effective June 19, 1976.
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