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IIRC you aren't entitled to a court-provided lawyer in civil proceedings. Although I guess the question is whether or not the AG could/should ask their legal c
by judge2020 3y ago
IIRC you aren't entitled to a court-provided lawyer in civil proceedings.
Although I guess the question is whether or not the AG could/should ask their legal council to represent the witness to some degree to fight these overbearing document requests.
- zdragnar 3y agoHe's not a defendant, he's a prosecutor's witness. The state ought to be covering him here, or they risk losing his testimony.
- Waterluvian 3y agoMy understanding is that you can be subpoenaed to testify as a witness and they don't need to make you whole.
- abduhl 3y agoCorrect, but there is a bit of an unstated threat any time you do this to one of your own witnesses where the witness may give testimony that is not as persuasive to your version of events as you’d like. “The car was blue.” versus “Well it was dark out and I didn’t have my glasses on but maybe the car was blue.”
- ceejayoz 3y agoPlain old witnesses, yes. Expert witnesses get paid when you pull them in to support your case. The State of California should also have some reasonable interest here in protecting their expert witness from retaliation, so they can continue to obtain qualified expert witnesses in future cases.
- ganoushoreilly 3y agoThis is usually the case. Having served as an expert witness in CA, this is what I was afforded. I still had my own legal team to interface with the state, but that was baked into my fee.
- kemayo 3y agoPractically California should be helping him, because otherwise one of their supporting witnesses might get their testimony undermined.
- LatteLazy 3y agoI think he is both: * he is a witness for the Amazon vs CA case * he is also, separately, being sued by Amazon, where he is a defendant From the (shitty twitter thread) article: >But nothing happened until November 2022 when the state of California filed a complaint against Amazon. >They cited me and made me a witness. >And in response, Amazon served me with a lawsuit.