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RSA 516:37 · Testimony by Video Teleconference in Criminal Cases

Title
LIII: PROCEEDINGS IN COURT
Chapter
516 · WITNESSES
Status
current
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516:37 Testimony by Video Teleconference in Criminal Cases. –

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I.

In any criminal case at which a certifying scientist, criminalist, laboratory scientist, or technical specialist from the forensic laboratory of the department of safety, division of state police is summoned to testify, the state may move to take the testimony of the scientist, criminalist, or specialist by video teleconference, provided that the testimony is limited to expert testimony or to the results of and matters relating to tests conducted at the forensic laboratory. Notice shall be provided to the defendant, and the defendant shall have an opportunity to object to the introduction of testimony by video teleconference. No video teleconference testimony shall be permitted during a felony prosecution, except with the affirmative assent of the defendant. Examination and cross-examination of the scientist, criminalist, or specialist shall proceed in the same manner as permitted at trial.

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In any criminal case at which the defendant summons a toxicologist, criminalist, laboratory scientist, or other person of similar expertise to testify as an expert witness, the defendant may move to take the testimony of that witness by video teleconference, provided that the testimony is limited to expert testimony or to the results of and matters relating to tests conducted at the forensic laboratory of the department of safety, division of state police. Notice shall be provided to the state, and the state shall have an opportunity to object to the introduction of testimony by video teleconference. No video teleconference testimony shall be permitted during a felony prosecution, except with the affirmative assent of the state. Examination and cross-examination of the expert witness shall proceed in the same manner as permitted at trial. Source. 2003, 247:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2004.

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Source. 2003, 247:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2004.

Source history

  • 2003, 247:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2004

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