885.12 Coercing witnesses before officers and boards. If any person, without reasonable excuse, fails to attend as a witness, or to testify as lawfully required before any arbitrator, coroner, medical examiner, board, commission, commissioner, examiner, committee, or other officer or person authorized to take testimony, or to produce a book or paper which the person was lawfully directed to bring, or to subscribe the person's deposition when correctly reduced to writing, any judge of a court of record or a circuit court commissioner in the county where the person was obliged to attend may, upon sworn proof of the facts, issue an attachment for the person, and unless the person shall purge the contempt and go and testify or do such other act as required by law, may commit the person to close confinement in the county jail until the person shall so testify or do such act, or be discharged according to law. The sheriff of the county shall execute the commitment.
History: 1973 c. 272; 1993 a. 486; 2001 a. 61.
Cross-reference: See s. 785.06.
Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 885 - Witnesses and oral testimony.
885.01 - Subpoenas, who may issue.
885.04 - Municipal judge; subpoena served in state.
885.05 - Witness and interpreter fees.
885.06 - Witness' fees, prepayment.
885.07 - State witnesses in civil actions and municipal witnesses in forfeiture actions, how paid.
885.08 - State witnesses in criminal cases, how paid.
885.09 - Compensation of nonresident or indigent witness.
885.10 - Witness for indigent respondent or defendant.
885.12 - Coercing witnesses before officers and boards.
885.14 - Disclosure of information and sources by news person.
885.205 - Privileged communications.
885.23 - Genetic tests in civil actions.
885.235 - Chemical tests for intoxication.
885.237 - Presumptions as to operation and registration of motor vehicle.
885.24 - Actions for public moneys, immunity.
885.25 - State actions vs. corporations or limited liability companies.
885.285 - Settlement and advance payment of claim for damages.
885.365 - Recorded telephone conversation.
885.37 - Interpreters in municipal courts and administrative agency contested cases.
885.38 - Interpreters in circuit and appellate courts.
885.43 - Notice of videotape deposition.
885.44 - Videotape deposition procedure.
885.45 - Videotape costs; depositions and trials.
885.46 - Videotape custody and preservation.
885.47 - Videotape playback equipment.
885.54 - Technical and operational standards.
885.56 - Criteria for exercise of court's discretion.
885.58 - Use in civil cases and special proceedings.
885.60 - Use in criminal cases and proceedings under chapters 48, 51, 55, 938, and 980.