subpoenain a sentence
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The witness and her records were subpoenaed.
subpoenaed = legally ordered to appear and provide specified documents
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Better be careful he doesn't hand you a subpoena.
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subpoena = a legal order requiring court-related testimony
- When Walter received a subpoena from Karen Kelly's husband to testify at a hearing where the Kellys would be fighting over their children's custody, he knew it was going to cause him serious problems.† (source)
- Seiler subpoenaed her.† (source)
- You subpoenaed documents and took depositions and pored over court records until you had put together a detailed and precise accounting of each stage in the deadly quarrel.† (source)
- He sued ten defendants in all, and several of the Hopkins employees involved had never heard of Cofield or Henrietta Lacks before their subpoenas arrived.† (source)
- The president of the company shot himself two days after being subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury.† (source)
- The police already submitted a subpoena for the records.† (source)
- The judge asked that Mrs. Henderson be subpoenaed, and when Momma arrived and said she was Mrs. Henderson, the judge, the bailiff and other whites in the audience laughed.† (source)
- You have the right to have me subpoena into court any evidence and/or witnesses in your favor.† (source)
- Nor did she want Mr. Blansen to call and complain to her chief or tell her she'd need a subpoena to get this type of information.† (source)
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- I was being subpoenaed to testify before the grand jury on November 4 at 2:00 P.M. I was supposed to go down to Marshall Street with Lila after she got back from class.† (source)
- So Wade Lanier did the unthinkable: he subpoenaed another lawyer.† (source)
- If I think we need it, we'll get a subpoena that will allow you to tell me what happened in the desert.† (source)
- You know that and I know that, but speaking of his history, there's a little matter of mental illness that'll come out the minute our clinical records are subpoenaed.† (source)
- You can issue a subpoena for me any time you wish.† (source)
- I called the daughter and boyfriend to the stand and subpoenaed Shane's ex-wife.† (source)
- A student of mine who opposed the war in Vietnam and marched against it was subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee.† (source)
- The Bureau will subpoena your books in the morning.† (source)
- Because he's subpoenaed Josie to testify on Monday.† (source)
- "I understand," Jennifer said again, "but if we have to, we'll subpoena the files.† (source)
- So Jake issued a subpoena and explained she might go to jail if she ignored it.† (source)
- I'll subpoena your boss, put him on the stand here, and, well, he'll have a bad day."† (source)
- What about the subpoena for J. D. Blanchard?† (source)
- "If there is a subpoena, then of course we'll be happy to cooperate."† (source)
- They subpoena the jury commissioners, they ask the judge to step down, they raise every legal trick in their books—and they have 'em aplenty—they try to force the judge into error.† (source)
- Subpoena?† (source)
- 'Drew,' Diana said, 'we brought you in here because you got a subpoena, and that means you're going to be testifying sometime next week.† (source)
- Today, she was on the defense's witness list, but she hadn't been served with a subpoena, which meant that she didn't actually have to be in the courthouse at all during the trial.† (source)
- "Got the subpoena," he said.† (source)
- I need a subpoena.† (source)
- Though the subpoenas had finally stopped coming, Deborah didn't believe the lawsuit was truly over.† (source)
- For starters, what's Virgil going to do when the state subpoenas him to testify against you?† (source)
- With a few subpoenas and some research, I could have told you where a few of his courtroom skeletons were buried-you blew it!† (source)
- Why not subpoena as well the clerical proficients?† (source)
- I left word with Earl to subpoena him too.† (source)
- I had Earl take down their names and subpoena 'em for the inquest next Monday."† (source)
- And so they set forth—this group—Burleigh and Earl Newcomb about Sharon itself in order to gather such additional data as they might in connection with Clyde's arrival and departure from here for the Cranstons' on Friday, talking with and subpoenaing any such individuals as might throw any light on his movements; Heit to Three Mile Bay on much the same errand, to see Captain Mooney of the "Cygnus" and the three men and Mason, together with the sheriff and his deputies, in a…† (source)
- "And you parted friends? and you would never have thought of bringing the business up before a court, hadn't you been subpoenaed?"† (source)
- You can fill in a few subpoenas on the train.† (source)
- And Earl Newcomb, a tall, slender, shock-headed young man of perhaps nineteen, and of a very serious, if at times befuddled, manner, at once seized a sheaf of subpoenas, and while stuffing these in his pocket, sought to get Mrs. Heit on the telephone.† (source)
- And then the usual denouement after the fun had gone on fast and furious he got 1190 landed into hot water and had to be spirited away by a few friends, after a strong hint to a blind horse from John Mallon of Lower Castle Yard, so as not to be made amenable under section two of the criminal law amendment act, certain names of those subpoenaed being handed in but not divulged for reasons which will occur to anyone with a pick of brains.† (source)
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