Alaska Statutes 26.05.796 – Wrongful refusal to testify
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Terms Used In Alaska Statutes 26.05.796
- Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
- confinement: means the physical restraint of a person. See Alaska Statutes 26.05.990
- Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
- officer: means a commissioned or warrant officer. See Alaska Statutes 26.05.990
- person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, organization, business trust, or society, as well as a natural person. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
- Preliminary hearing: A hearing where the judge decides whether there is enough evidence to make the defendant have a trial.
- state: means the State of Alaska unless applied to the different parts of the United States and in the latter case it includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
A member of the militia who, during a preliminary hearing or in the presence of a court-martial, board of officers, military commission, court of inquiry, or officer taking a deposition of or for the state, wrongfully refuses to qualify as a witness or answer a question after having been directed to do so by the person presiding over the proceeding may be punished by up to one year of confinement, by separation with characterization up to dishonorable discharge, and by such other punishment as a court-martial may direct.