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Lawyer who intervened in Jussie Smollett case refuses subpoena
New York Post ^ | 23-05-19 | Lia Eustachewich

Posted on 05/23/2019 9:19:24 AM PDT by McQ444

A former top aide to Michelle Obama refused to be served a subpoena Wednesday related to her contact with Chicago prosecutor Kim Foxx in the Jussie Smollett case. The subpoena was issued by former Illinois Appellate Judge Sheila O’Brien as part of her request for a special prosecutor to investigate the Cook County state’s attorney’s handling of Smollett’s criminal case, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. O’Brien wants the former first lady’s one-time chief of staff, Tina Tchen, to produce “any and all documents, notes, phone records, texts, tape recordings made or received at any time, concerning [Tchen’s] conversations with Kim Foxx in re: Jussie Smollett” at a May 31 hearing.

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KEYWORDS: smollett
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1 posted on 05/23/2019 9:19:24 AM PDT by McQ444
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To: McQ444

refuses subpoena

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Can you do that?


2 posted on 05/23/2019 9:20:41 AM PDT by z3n
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To: McQ444

Curiouser and curiouser!


3 posted on 05/23/2019 9:20:53 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (A joke: Comey,Brennan and Lynch walk into a Barr...)
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To: McQ444

Democrats are LAW_LESS because Republicans are BALL-LESS!


4 posted on 05/23/2019 9:22:51 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: McQ444

I didn’t know you could refuse a subpoena..............


5 posted on 05/23/2019 9:22:56 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: z3n
Can you do that?

Unless it's issued by a sitting judge for disposition of a matter before his court, sure.

6 posted on 05/23/2019 9:22:59 AM PDT by Jim Noble (1)
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To: Red Badger

Check your tag line for the answer. We’re there. In the era AFTER the USA.


7 posted on 05/23/2019 9:24:20 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: McQ444

Now THIS is what a “cover up” looks like.


8 posted on 05/23/2019 9:25:44 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: McQ444

Obvious coverup of the illegal action granting a special favor to a guilty person.


9 posted on 05/23/2019 9:33:16 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Islam, not a religion, a totalitarian political ideology aiming for world domination. -Wilders)
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Lawyer who intervened in Jussie Smollett case refuses subpoena

I wonder why?

10 posted on 05/23/2019 9:33:48 AM PDT by Don Corleone (Nothing makes the delusional more furious than truth.)
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To: z3n

Can you do that?


Not that I am aware of. You can try, of course.


11 posted on 05/23/2019 9:34:03 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: McQ444

I thought Tiny had accepted a job in Birmingham at the SPLC.

Is she commuting?


12 posted on 05/23/2019 9:39:58 AM PDT by ptsal
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I thought Tiny Tina had accepted a job in Birmingham at the SPLC. Is she commuting?
13 posted on 05/23/2019 9:40:46 AM PDT by ptsal
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To: z3n

Not so far as I know.

You can “dodge” personal service.

You can also refuse to voluntarily accept service. Sometimes the party serving the subpoena, which is usually another party, and not the judge, will write to the target and ask if the target will voluntarily accept service, such as by mail. In such cases the target signs a form acknowledging service. No one is required to do this. Maybe that’s what the article means, but since the headline starts off wrong, I’m not going to bother reading it.

Once the target is personally served, there’s no “refusal”. And you can be served without touching it.

At that point, once lawful service has been made, the target has to bring a motion to quash.


14 posted on 05/23/2019 9:41:25 AM PDT by Flash Bazbeaux
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To: cuban leaf

I had people so call refuse service.

I would touch them on the chest with the paper let it fall to the ground and walk away.

They were served.


15 posted on 05/23/2019 9:43:30 AM PDT by riverrunner ( o the public,)
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To: z3n

No you can’t refuse it. But you can dodge service for a while by avoiding the process server. Eventually, depending on the state, the court authorizes sterner measures, like sending a sheriff.


16 posted on 05/23/2019 9:46:07 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine ( "It's always a party when you're eating the seed corn.")
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To: z3n

Not without a Rabbi and a live chicken


17 posted on 05/23/2019 9:46:44 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights".)
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To: z3n

Ignoring a subpoena, how dare he! Impeach him! Oh.. wait.. he’s on our side, never mind.


18 posted on 05/23/2019 9:48:12 AM PDT by nuke_road_warrior (Making the world safe for nuclear power for over 20 years)
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To: riverrunner

That’s how I see it as well. That’s what I don’t get here.


19 posted on 05/23/2019 9:54:44 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: McQ444
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Tchen Michelle Barack.

20 posted on 05/23/2019 10:30:16 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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