229 Md. App. 86 - Lewis v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. “If a person in any [S]tate, which by its laws has made provision for commanding persons within its borders to attend and testify in criminal prosecutions ... in this State, is a material witness in a prosecution pending in a court of record in this State, ... a judge of the court may issue a certificate under tire seal of the court stating these facts and specifying the number of days the witness will be required.... This certificate shall be presented to a judge of a court of record in the county in which the witness is found.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lewis v. State

2. “Exemption of person coming into State to attend and testify.—If a person comes into this State in obedience to a summons directing him [or her] to attend and testify in this State he [or she] shall not while in this State pursuant to such summons be subject to arrest or the service of process, civil or criminal, in connection with matters which arose before his [or her] entrance into this State under the summons.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lewis v. State

3. “[T]he laws of the [S]tate in which the prosecution is pending, and of any other [S]tate through which [Lewis] may be required to pass by ordinary course of travel, will give to [Lewis] protection from arrest and service of civil and criminal process in connection with matters which arose before entering into that [S]tate under this summons[.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lewis v. State