I received a subpoena from the Board of Parole Hearings. What is that all about?
The Board of Parole Hearings conducts parole revocation hearings to determine if a person released from prison on parole should be returned to prison for violating the conditions of his release. If a person on parole commits a crime his parole agent may seek to return him to prison for violating parole at the same time the District Attorney is prosecuting him for the new crime. If you are a victim or a witness to the new crime you may be asked to testify at a parole revocation hearing and this may happen either before or after you testify in court. Neither your testimony in court nor you testimony at a parole revocation hearing can be used in place of live witnesses at a hearing in the other proceeding. You may have to testify in person at both a court hearing and a parole revocation hearing. Even though the District Attorney does not conduct parole revocation hearings and does not issue subpoenas for parole hearings, if you have any questions about the subpoena you received you should
