Vermont § 504 - Investigation in criminal cause; expert witness When the State’s Attorney of a county, on the order of a Superior judge or the Attorney
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§ 504. Investigation in criminal cause; expert witness When the State’s Attorney of a county, on the order of a Superior judge or the Attorney
- General, for use in a criminal cause pending in the State’s Attorney’s office, requests
an expert investigation, chemical or pathological, of a substance, such investigation
shall immediately be made at the laboratory, without charge to the State, and the
expert making or interpreting such investigation shall submit the results of such
expert’s work to such State’s Attorney and shall attend court as a witness at any
place in the State when required to do so by subpoena and submit in court the results
of such expert’s investigation, and the expert shall be paid as a witness, including
the expert’s actual expenses of attendance when summoned by the State. (Amended 1985, No. 267 (Adj. Sess.), § 16; 2023, No. 6, § 100, eff. July 1, 2023.)
Source: official Vermont text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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