HB 586 -- Depositions in Criminal Cases

Co-Sponsors:  Lipke (157), Hanaway, Crowell, Kingery, Jetton,
Goodman, Stevenson

This bill limits the depositions that a prosecutor may take in a
criminal case.  A prosecutor may depose only essential witnesses.
An essential witness, defined in Section 492.303, RSMo, is an
eyewitness to a felony or a witness whose testimony would
establish an element of the felony that cannot be proven in any
other manner.

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