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Ninth Circuit: Witnesses Cannot Refuse to Testify at Civil Trial

On March 31, 2015, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a magistrate judge abused her discretion by allowing prisoners to opt out of testifying at a civil rights trial alleging guards had used excessive force on another prisoner.

The ruling came in a lawsuit filed by California prisoner ...

 

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