Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 22-4210

  • Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Penal institution: includes a jail, prison, penitentiary, house of correction, or other place of penal detention. See Kansas Statutes 22-4207
  • state: shall include any territory of the United States and the District of Columbia. See Kansas Statutes 22-4201
  • Witness: as used in this article shall include a person whose testimony is desired in any proceedings or investigation by a grand jury or in a criminal action, prosecution or proceeding. See Kansas Statutes 22-4201

If a person confined in a penal institution in any other state may be a material witness in a criminal action pending in a court of record or in a grand jury investigation in this state, a judge of the court may certify (1) that there is a criminal proceeding or investigation by a grand jury or a criminal action pending in the court, (2) that a person who is confined in a penal institution in the other state may be a material witness in the proceeding, investigation, or action, and (3) that his presence will be required during a specified time. The certificate shall be presented to a judge of a court of record in the other state having jurisdiction over the prisoner confined, and a notice shall be given to the attorney general of the state in which the prisoner is confined.

This act does not apply to any person in this state confined as mentally ill, in need of mental treatment, or under sentence of death or life without the possibility of parole.