Legal Question in Criminal Law in Pennsylvania

Requirements for Testifying at a Hearing

Scenario: A health care company suffered a theft of confidential documents. The said documents turned up in the apartment of a known criminal felon. The police contacted the company to come down to identify the documents. The company asked one of the manager's who works with this type of documentation to go make the identification. The manager goes with the company attorney and makes the identification.During the past 5 months, the manager has not been informed about the details of the investigation leading up to the capture of the felon.

Question: The felon was apprehended 30 days ago, is the manager mandated by law to testify at the hearing? Also would the manager be the correct individual to swear that the documents were stolen from the company, when the documents were not taken from this manager's service area?


Asked on 10/26/03, 7:48 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys

Re: Requirements for Testifying at a Hearing

It sounds like you are worrying about something that you do not need to. If they are company docs, any number of people could be used to ID them. Police are expected to treat the guys they caught red-handed, and they KNOW are guilty, the same as those that they have very little info/evidence on, and they suspect may be guilty of something (but may not be). They will not tell you caca, even if you call.

There are lots of things you need to worry about, worry about them, and relax.

Kevin J. Begley

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Answered on 10/27/03, 3:18 pm


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