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Superior Court Rules

Superior Court Rules  Superior Court Rule 55: Experts in criminal and delinquent children cases

(Applicable to criminal cases and cases of delinquent children)

Rule 55

The court will not allow compensation as an expert witness to a salaried medical examiner or a salaried physician of a penal institution or place of detention, unless it appears by the certificate of the district attorney that he has testified as an expert.

The court will allow no fee to a salaried physician of a penal institution or place of detention for making an examination into the mental condition of a person held in custody therein or for a report or medical certificate as to such condition.

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