New York Laws
Article 680 - Securing Testimony Outside the State for Use in Proceeding Within the State-Examination of Witnesses on Commission
680.10 - Examination of Witnesses on Commission; in General.

1. Under circumstances prescribed in this article, testimony material
to a trial or pending trial of an accusatory instrument which charges a
crime, may be taken by "examination on a commission" outside the state
and received in evidence at such trial.

2. A "commission" is a process issued by a superior court designating
one or more persons as commissioners and authorizing them to conduct a
recorded examination of a witness or witnesses under oath, primarily on
the basis of interrogatories annexed to the commission, and to remit to
the issuing court the transcript of such examination.

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