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17-A M.R.S. § 1612 — Tolling of sentence of noncompliant witness

Current through First Special Session of the 132nd Maine Legislature (current through October 1, 2025)

Part of Chapter 63: Sentences of Imprisonment, Maine Revised Statutes.

Full text of 17-A M.R.S. § 1612

Statutory text current through the First Special Session of the 132nd Maine Legislature (current through October 1, 2025). This publication reproduces the statutory text of the Maine Revised Statutes from the Revisor of Statutes' official published files; it is not the official statutes of the State of Maine and has not been certified by the Secretary of State.

17-A M.R.S. § 1612Primary source, current through the First Special Session of the 132nd Maine Legislature (current through October 1, 2025)
In the event a witness in a grand jury or criminal proceeding has been ordered confined by a court in the State as a remedial coercive sanction for refusing to comply with an order of the court to testify or provide evidence, and that witness is already in execution of an undischarged term of imprisonment on a sentence in the State, that court may order that the undischarged term of imprisonment be tolled for the duration of the coercive imprisonment.

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