Word: subpoena
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...telephone interview from Washington yesterday, Sterns called the issuance of the subpoena "a Republican effort to sustain themselves following three months of damaging testimony...
...Ostrow's case, B.U. was trying a student retroactively under B.U.'s new Provisional Student Disciplinary Code passed last April 20. Under that code, Ostrow had no power to subpoena witnesses. His prosecutor, judge and jury were all appointed, directly or indirectly, by B.U. President John R. Silber. Had Ostrow been found guilty, he could have appealed only to Silber...
Mitchell Sikora, the administration appointed hearing examiner, denied 11 preliminary defense motions contesting the constitutionality of the hearing, the adequacy of the hearing room, and the lack of any subpoena power...
...scandal, and probably on the Ellsberg break-in and other plumbers' activities. Now that he has been indicted, Ehrlichman has grounds for keeping silent, at least in regard to the Ellsberg burglary case. His attorneys, in fact, asked the federal district court in Washington to quash the subpoena; testifying for a fourth time, they maintained, would be "unreasonable and oppressive." Cox, on the other hand, argued that Ehrlichman has testified only briefly in his past appearances. He feels that Ehrlichman knows too much to be silenced...
...paraphrase Chief Justice Marshall, if it be apparent that the tapes are irrelevant to the investigation, or that for State reasons they cannot be introduced into the case, the subpoena duces tecum would be useless. But if this be not apparent, if they may be important in the investigation, if they may be safely heard by the grand jury, if only in part, would it not be a blot on the page which records the judicial proceedings of this country, if, in a case of such serious import as this, the court did not at least call for an inspection...