Oklahoma § 22-731 - Transfer order - Determinations necessary - Copy of

§ 22-731. Transfer order - Determinations necessary - Copy of

certificate attached - Directions and prescriptions Responsibilities of requesting jurisdiction.

A. A judge may issue a transfer order if, at the hearing, the

judge determines as follows:

1. The witness may be material and necessary to the proceeding;

2. His attendance and testimony are not adverse to the interest

of this state or to the health or legal rights of the witness;

3. The laws of the state in which he is requested to testify

will give him protection from arrest and the service of civil and

criminal process due to any act committed prior to his arrival in

the state under the order; and

4. The possibility is negligible that the witness may be

subject to arrest or to the service of civil or criminal process in

any state through which he will be required to pass.

B. If a judge issues an order under subsection A of this

section, the judge shall attach to the order a copy of the

certificate presented pursuant to Section 3 of this act. The order

shall:

1. Direct the witness to attend and testify;

2. Except as provided by subsection C of this section, direct

the person having custody of the witness to produce him in the court

where the criminal proceeding is pending or where the grand jury is

sitting at a time and place specified in the order; and

3. Prescribe such other conditions as the judge shall

determine.

C. The judge, in lieu of directing the person having custody of

the witness to produce him in the requesting jurisdiction's court,

may direct and require in the order as follows: 1. An officer of

the requesting jurisdiction to come to the Oklahoma penal

institution in which the witness is confined to accept custody of

the witness for physical transfer to the requesting jurisdiction;

2. The requesting jurisdiction provide proper safeguards for

his custody while in transit;

3. The requesting jurisdiction be liable for and pay all

expense incurred in producing and returning the witness, including

but not limited to food, lodging, clothing, and medical care; and

4. The requesting jurisdiction promptly deliver the witness

back to the same or another Oklahoma penal institution as specified

by the Department of Corrections at the conclusion of his testimony.

Added by Laws 1989, c. 100, § 4, eff. Nov. 1, 1989.