Situations occur where passengers in the car are subpoenaed to court. When someone is defending a DUI case and it’s getting close to trial, the prosecutor could be a City Attorney or District Attorney. They send out subpoenas to get witnesses into court. The witnesses could be someone in the car, in another person’s car or someone who has seen something that might be helpful.
Failing to Comply with a Subpoena Can Result in Arrest
If a person is subpoenaed to court, that is a court order and they are obligated to comply with that. If they don’t, a judge could issue a body attachment which is like a bench warrant and the Sheriff’s Department could come out and actually arrest them and take them to court.
The Subpoena Is Often Sent by Regular Mail Easily Lost or Wording on the Subpoena May Be Confusing
Many times, the prosecutor sends out the subpoenas by regular mail and they get lost in the mail, they don’t get delivered, they’re not always regular letters and sometimes people just never receive them. Of course, if someone never received the subpoena then they don’t know to comply – they don’t know that they have to go to court.
Sometimes subpoenas will say to call the City Attorney or the District Attorney to see whether or not you need to come in. Whatever the case may be, you cannot just disregard a subpoena. They are, in fact, a court order. If someone has more questions about court subpoenas or DMV subpoenas and they want to talk about it, they can call me.
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