meaner gene
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Think for once. If after 5 years or 10 years the witness is dead. The court can't order them to appear.sure snd we have one, the court can order witnesses to appear on the defense behalf
that has nothing to do with SOL. Nor does it guarantee witnesses...just the process to bring them in
If after 5 years or 10 years the witness can on longer remember what happened.
The court can't compel witnesses to come back to life or remember events from long ago. Hence without being able to provide that constitutional guarantee, it effectively imposes a statute of limitations. The actual SOL's just standardizes the principle.