Maine Revised Statutes Title 3 Sec. 429 – Release of testimony
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1. Release. The decision to release testimony and the decision as to the form and manner in which testimony may be released is an investigating committee action. However, no testimony may be released without first affording the witness who gave such testimony, or the witness’s counsel, an opportunity to object to the proposed release.
A. The witness or the witness’s counsel may, by such objection, require that testimony given in open session, if it is released at all, be released in the form of a full, consecutive transcript. [PL 2019, c. 475, §27 (AMD).]
B. The witness or the witness’s counsel may, by such objection, require that testimony given in executive session not be released in any form or manner whatsoever. [PL 2019, c. 475, §27 (AMD).]
[PL 2019, c. 475, §27 (AMD).]
Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 3 Sec. 429
- Executive session: A portion of the Senate's daily session in which it considers executive business.
- executive session: is a session at which only members of the investigating committee, staff of the committee, counsel to the committee, the witness and counsel may be present. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 3 Sec. 402
- investigating committee: is a ny committee of the Legislature which has been granted by the Legislature the power to administer oaths, issue subpoenas and take depositions, as authorized by section 165, subsection 7. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 3 Sec. 402
- Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
- Testimony: is a ny form of evidence received by an investigating committee. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 3 Sec. 402
- Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
- witness: is a ny person who testifies before an investigating committee or who gives a deposition. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 3 Sec. 402
2. Transcript. The witness or the witness’s counsel, upon payment of the cost of preparation, must be given a transcript of any testimony taken. However, the witness or the witness’s counsel is not entitled to obtain a transcript of the executive session testimony of other witnesses. The release of a transcript under this subsection is not the release of testimony within the meaning of subsection 1.
[PL 2019, c. 475, §27 (AMD).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1975, c. 593, §3 (NEW). PL 2019, c. 475, §27 (AMD).