613-A:1 Definitions
613-A:2 Summoning Witness in This State to Testify in Another State
613-A:3 Court Order
613-A:4 Terms and Conditions
613-A:5 Exceptions
613-A:6 Prisoner from Another State Summoned to Testify in This State
613-A:7 Compliance
613-A:8 Exemption from Arrest and Service of Process
613-A:9 Uniformity of Interpretation
613-A:10 Short Title
613-A:11 Severability Clause

Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes > Chapter 613-A - Uniform Rendition of Prisoners as Witnesses in Criminal Proceedings Act

  • Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
  • 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
  • Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
  • 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.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • United States: shall include said district and territories. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:4
  • 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