ALABAMA
AL.com
By Brendan Kirby | bkirby@al.com
on March 10, 2015
Lawyers seeking to hold Baldwin County District Attorney Hallie Dixon in contempt failed to follow proper procedure regarding a subpoena, the prosecutor said Tuesday.
Attorneys representing a former St. Pius X Catholic School student accusing administrators of allowing her to be bullied are seeking a court order sanctioning Dixon for failing to appear at a deposition on Friday. They wanted to ask her questions about allegations her office reviewed involving the pastor of St. Pius. The pastor, the Rev. Johnny Savoie, oversees the school principal.
Dixon said on Tuesday that the subpoena was invalid because rules governing civil cases require plaintiffs to file a notice of their intent to question a non-party and then give other lawyers in the case 15 days to object.
“The lawyers who filed that motion and gave those comments need to read the Rules of Civil Procedure and educate themselves about what the Rules of Civil Procedure are,” she said. ‘Their motion not only does not have any merit, it’s exactly against what the Rules of Civil Procedure are.”
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