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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>73112</law_id><section_number>19.2-274</section_number><catch_line>When court to order witness to attend</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="19.2">Criminal Procedure</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="16">Evidence and Witnesses</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="2">Witnesses From or for Another State</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>If at such <span class="dictionary">hearing</span> the <span class="dictionary">judge</span> determines that the <span class="dictionary">witness</span> is <span class="dictionary">material</span> and necessary, that it will not cause undue hardship to the <span class="dictionary">witness</span> to be compelled to attend and testify in the <span class="dictionary">prosecution</span> or <span class="dictionary">grand jury</span> investigation in the other <span class="dictionary">state</span> and that the <span class="dictionary">laws</span> of the <span class="dictionary">state</span> in which the <span class="dictionary">prosecution</span> is pending, or <span class="dictionary">grand jury</span> investigation has commenced or is about to commence (and of any other <span class="dictionary">state</span> through which the <span class="dictionary">witness</span> may be required to pass by ordinary course of travel) will give to him protection from <span class="dictionary">arrest</span> and the service of civil and criminal process, the <span class="dictionary">judge</span> shall <span class="dictionary">issue</span> a <span class="dictionary">summons</span>, with a copy of the certificate attached, directing the <span class="dictionary">witness</span> to attend and testify in the <span class="dictionary">court</span> where the <span class="dictionary">prosecution</span> is pending, or where a <span class="dictionary">grand jury</span> investigation has commenced or is about to commence at a time and place specified in the <span class="dictionary">summons</span>. In any such <span class="dictionary">hearing</span> the certificate shall be prima facie <span class="dictionary">evidence</span> of all the <span class="dictionary">facts</span> stated therein.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 19.1-271; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
