Supoenas/Witness

Subpoena seeking pretrial discovery of victim's private Facebook communications should have been quashed where content is protected from disclosure under the Stored Communications Act (SCA). Defendant Touchstone was accused of attempting to murder victim Jeffrey R. After the victim posted…

Trial court's error in requiring prisoner defendant to serve subpoenas on witnesses was harmless error. At Garcia's trial for possession of a sharp instrument in prison, the trial court required the self-represented defendant to serve subpoenas on his prisoner witnesses…

D.W. was a material witness to a robbery, and had failed to appear several times at trial, after having been subpoenaed to appear in court, and was ultimately incarcerated pursuant to Penal Code sections 1332 and 1209. This habeas proceeding…

In this writ proceeding, the superior court was ordered to conduct immediate hearings as to whether two minors, who had been detained for ten weeks as material witnesses in a special circumstance murder prosecution, should continue to be detained. Under…