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To avoid having a witness color his testimony by hearing the testimony of other witnesses, any party may invoke the rule on sequestration (exclusion) of lay witnesses or experts. By not allowing a witness, lay or expert, to hear other witnesses before being called, the chances of fabrication and collusion are reduced.

Generally, the prosecution must provide discovery within a set period after the defense's formal request, often ranging from a few weeks to several months. Evidence should be available to the defense either at the preliminary hearing or after the accused has been indicted by a grand jury.

Failure to answer or properly object may result in penalties such as dismissal of the case, attorney's fees, fines, or other sanctions. There may be proper objections to certain discovery questions, but they can be highly technical and fact specific. You don't seem to know what you are doing.

Like interrogatories, the response to this request must be provided within 30 days except the Respondent does not have to response any sooner than 45 days from the service of the petition and summons.

1. A party may take the testimony of any person, including a party, by deposition upon oral examination without leave of court except as provided in paragraph 2 of this subsection. The attendance of witnesses may be compelled by subpoena as provided in Section 2004.1 of this title.

Under the Oklahoma Pleading Code, a defendant has 20 days from the date of service to serve an answer.

You must respond to each request individually. You do not need to repeat the text of the question, but your responses must be in the same order as the requests, and each response should be labeled with the same number or letter as the request.

If you were personally served with the request, meaning someone delivered them directly to you, you will have 30 days. If you received the request in the mail, and both you and the sender are in California, you have 35 days from the day of mailing to respond.

This is undoubtedly the most time consuming and critical task in discovery. Traditionally, discovery has been a document-heavy process during which parties to a case pore through millions of paper documents to uncover key evidence. This characterization exists because it is largely accurate.?