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CPL - Criminal Procedure
Part 3 - Special Proceedings and Miscellaneous Procedures
Title S - Procedures for Securing Testimony for Future Use,and for Using Testimony Given in a Prior Proceeding
Article 680 - Securing Testimony Outside the State for Use in Proceeding Within the State-Examination of Witnesses on Commission
680.10 - Examination of Witnesses on Commission; in General.
Universal Citation: NY Crim Pro L § 680.10 (2021)
§ 680.10 Examination of witnesses on commission; in general.1. Under circumstances prescribed in this article, testimony material to a trial or pending trial of an accusatory instrument which charges a crime, may be taken by "examination on a commission" outside the state and received in evidence at such trial.
2. A "commission" is a process issued by a superior court designating one or more persons as commissioners and authorizing them to conduct a recorded examination of a witness or witnesses under oath, primarily on the basis of interrogatories annexed to the commission, and to remit to the issuing court the transcript of such examination.
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