Request for Witnesses Confined in Foreign State; Certificate; Contents; Foreign Court Having Jurisdiction Over Prisoner, Presentment of Certificate.

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Sec. 7.

If a person confined in a penal institution in any other state may be a material witness in a criminal action pending in a court of record or in a grand jury investigation in this state, a judge of the court 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 the other state may be a material witness in the proceeding, investigation or action, and (3) that his presence will be required during a specified time. The certificate shall be presented to a judge of a court of record in the other state having jurisdiction over the prisoner confined, and a notice shall be given to the attorney general of the state in which the prisoner is confined.

History: 1967, Act 161, Imd. Eff. June 30, 1967


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