Missouri Laws 545.415 – Criminal cases, prosecutors and circuit attorneys may take depositions of ..
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Terms Used In Missouri Laws 545.415
- Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
- person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
Beginning July 1, 1995, a prosecuting or circuit attorney in any criminal case pending in any court may obtain the deposition of any person on oral examination. The manner of taking such depositions shall be governed by the rules relating to the taking of depositions in civil actions. The depositions of any person confined in prison shall be taken where such person is confined.