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Obtaining Testimony and Evidence from Overseas Witnesses

Will you be able to secure evidence that could clear your client when it is located outside the reach of U.S. courts? It's a salient question for today's e-commerce counsel. The defense of white-collar crime increasingly involves the need to obtain evidence from witnesses located abroad. Without careful planning, exculpatory evidence may remain beyond the reach of a defendant for whom such evidence is the only thing standing between him or her, and a prison sentence.

18 minute read March 27, 2008 at 12:23 PM
By
Daniel R. Alonso
Obtaining Testimony and Evidence from Overseas Witnesses
Imagine that your client is an executive charged with embezzling from the New York office of an Argentine business by siphoning funds into a private account. Although the primary witnesses are located in Argentina, they are willing to travel to the United States to testify for the prosecution.

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