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Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 05:10:05 -0700
To: "Brent Alan" <liberty1@ptialaska.net>
From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: federal witness/federal citizen

At 10:43 PM 6/29/97 -0800, you wrote:
>
>Paul,
>	Why do you have behind your name the words "federal witness". I have
never heard anyone
>else claim that title. It almost sounds as if one would need to be a
'federal citizen' to
>be a 'federal witness'.
>
>Brent Alan,Cole   near Craig, Alaska


Brent,

Testifying makes you a federal witness.
You can be compelled, pursuant to the
Sixth Amendment ("... to have compulsory
process for obtaining witnesses ....").
See 18 U.S.C. 1512 and 1513, in particular
the Historical and Statutory Notes and
the Legislative History of the most recent
amendments.  Congress does not like it when
federal witnesses get threatened, or when
they are the victims of retaliation.  Being
a federal witness does not make you a federal
citizen, however, because of the Sixth 
Amendment.

/s/ Paul Mitchell
http://www.supremelaw.com

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