New Hampshire Revised Statutes 613-A:2 – Summoning Witness in This State to Testify in Another State
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Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 613-A:2
- 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 institutions: includes a jail, prison, penitentiary, house of correction, or other place of penal detention. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 613-A:1
- person: may extend and be applied to bodies corporate and politic as well as to individuals. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:9
- State: includes any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and any territory of the United States. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 613-A:1
- Testify: Answer questions in court.
- Witness: means a person who is confined in a penal institution in any state and whose testimony is desired in another state in any criminal proceeding or investigation by a grand jury or in any criminal action before a court. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 613-A:1
A judge of a state court of record in another state which by its laws has made provision for commanding persons confined in penal institutions within that state to attend and testify in this state 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 this state may be a material witness in the proceeding, investigation, or action, and (3) that his presence will be required during a specified time. Upon presentation of the certificate to any judge having jurisdiction over the person confined, and upon notice to the attorney general, the judge in this state shall fix a time and place for a hearing and shall make an order directed to the person having custody of the prisoner requiring that the prisoner be produced before him at the hearing.