Word: subpoenae
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...objectives; therefore I will not tell it what I know." He is neither wise nor legally justified in attempting political protest by standing silent when obligated to speak. The citizen is ordinarily required, when summoned, to give testimony to a court, legislative committee or other body vested with subpoena power, and if he refuses to do so he is punishable. Subpoena power has proved necessary to the conduct of government: it is the correlative of the guarantee to an accused in the Sixth Amendment that he shall "have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor...
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...citizen is ordinarily required, when summoned, to give testimony to a court, legislative committee or other body vested with subpoena power; and if he refuses to do so, he is punishable. Subpoena power has proved necessary to the conduct of government," the statement pointed out, under the guarantee an accused man shall "have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor...
Last week a five-man State Crime Commission opened public hearings in Manhattan on the plight of the waterfront. To lay a basis, the commission first cast its subpoena net into a school of neatly groomed waterfront businessmen-heads of stevedoring and shipping companies. In theory, these were the helpless victims in the domain of President Joe Ryan of the A.F.L.'s International Longshoremen's Association. In fact and testimony, most of the witnesses turned out to be men who would dangle a dollar on the end of a hook for either bait or payoff, whichever...
...investigating Senator John James Williams promptly called it "utterly indefensible," and inquired whether this was part of a plan to use the civil service as "a haven of refuge for repudiated politicians."* Members of the House subcommittee investigating the BIR have charged that Dunlap "dishonored" a subpoena calling upon him to produce records that the subcommittee needed. He said he wouldn't have time to see the subcommittee until December, and denied that he had received a subpoena...