AELE LAW LIBRARY OF CASE SUMMARIES:
Corrections Law for Jails, Prisons and
Detention Facilities
Witness Fees
Federal appeals
court upholds statute barring payment of witness fees to prisoner witnesses
in federal cases. Moran v. United States, 18 F.3d 412 (7th Cir. 1994).
Convicted prisoners
summoned to testify in a federal trial are entitled to witness fees. Demarest
v. Manspeaker, 111 S.Ct. 599 (1991).