State of Oregon ex rel. Gladden v. Lonergan

Summary

The Oregon Supreme Court held that a circuit court had jurisdiction to compel production of a convicted prisoner to testify orally for a criminal defendant. It concluded that the statute requiring a convicted felon's testimony to be taken by deposition was unconstitutional as applied because it conflicted with the accused's rights to face-to-face testimony and compulsory process. Justice Lusk, specially concurring, would have reached the same result solely under the compulsory-process guarantee, and Justice Warner joined that concurrence.