State v. Van Dyck’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Lambert · United States v. Morris · McElroy ex rel. Action Manufacturing Co. v. Gaffney · World Youth Day, Inc. v. Famous Artists Merchandising Exchange, Inc. · Humphrey on Behalf of State v. McLaren
Most-quoted passages
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““A lawyer is a ‘necessary’ witness ‘if his or her testimony is relevant, material and unobtainable elsewhere.’ World Youth Day, Inc. v. Famous Artists, 866 F.Supp. 1297, 1302 (D.Colo.1994). ‘[I]f the evidence sought to be elicited from the attorney-witness can be produced in some other effective way, it may be that the attorney is not necessary as a witness.’ Humphrey on [B]ehalf of State v. McLaren, 402 N.W.2d 535, 541 (Minn.1987). ‘If the lawyer’s testimony is merely cumulative, or quite peripheral ... ordinarily the lawyer is not a necessary witness.’ Id. ‘Simply to assert that the attorney will be called as a witness, a too-frequent trial tactic, is not enough.’ Id.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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