Section 491.600 – Courts with criminal jurisdiction may issue orders to protect witness or victim.
Effective – 28 Aug 1983 491.600. Courts with criminal jurisdiction may issue orders to protect witness or victim. — Any court with jurisdiction over any criminal matter may, in its discretion, upon substantial evidence, which may include hearsay, that intimidation or dissuading of any person who is a victim or who is a witness has […]
Section 491.610 – Violation of protective orders, penalties.
Effective – 28 Aug 1983 491.610. Violation of protective orders, penalties. — Any person violating any order made pursuant to section 491.600 may be punished in any of the following ways: (1) For any substantive offense described in section 575.270 where such violation of an order is a violation of section 575.270 as a contempt […]
Section 491.620 – Pretrial releases of defendant conditional — notice of prohibited witness tampering activities required.
Effective – 28 Aug 1983 491.620. Pretrial releases of defendant conditional — notice of prohibited witness tampering activities required. — 1. Any pretrial release of any defendant whether on bail or under any other form of recognizance shall be deemed as a matter of law to include a condition that the defendant neither do nor […]
Section 491.640 – Prosecutors coordinators training council may provide for security of witnesses and families, when — powers — request by law enforcement agencies, content — delegation of program administration, to whom.
Effective – 28 Aug 2004 491.640. Prosecutors coordinators training council may provide for security of witnesses and families, when — powers — request by law enforcement agencies, content — delegation of program administration, to whom. — 1. The prosecutors coordinators training council, as established in section 56.760, may, upon the council’s own initiative or at […]
Section 491.380 – Competency of witnesses, how determined — oath of witnesses.
Effective – 28 Aug 1945 491.380. Competency of witnesses, how determined — oath of witnesses. — 1. If a witness, on being produced, shall be objected to as incompetent, such objection shall be tried and determined by the associate circuit judge. 2. Every person offered as a witness, before any testimony shall be given by […]
Section 491.280 – Fees of witnesses.
Effective – 28 Aug 2003 491.280. Fees of witnesses. — 1. Witnesses shall be allowed fees for their services in the amount of twenty-five dollars per day plus a mileage allowance determined as provided in section 33.095. 2. Each witness may be examined on oath by the court or by the clerk when the court […]
Section 491.290 – Fees, how paid.
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 491.290. Fees, how paid. — The clerk of each court of record shall, on the application of any witness to have his fees allowed, enter on his book, under the title of the cause in which the witness was summoned or recognized, or if before the grand jury, the name […]
Section 491.310 – Associate circuit judge to issue subpoenas.
Effective – 28 Aug 1945 491.310. Associate circuit judge to issue subpoenas. — The associate circuit judge shall issue subpoenas for witnesses at the instance of either party, and shall include all the witnesses ordered at the same time by a party in one subpoena. ——– (RSMo 1939 § 2649, A.L. 1945 p. 765 § […]
Section 491.320 – Validity of subpoena.
Effective – 28 Aug 1945 491.320. Validity of subpoena. — A subpoena issued by an associate circuit judge shall be valid to compel the attendance in an associate circuit judge’s court of a witness, as provided in sections 491.010 to 491.270. ——– (RSMo 1939 § 2650, A.L. 1945 p. 765 § 86) Prior revisions: 1929 […]
Section 491.330 – Associate circuit judge may order witness attached, when.
Effective – 28 Aug 1945 491.330. Associate circuit judge may order witness attached, when. — Whenever it shall appear to the satisfaction of the associate circuit judge that any person duly subpoenaed to appear before him in a suit shall have failed without just cause to attend as a witness in conformity to such subpoena, […]