Thursday, September 17th, 2009
DAlaska: Beistline Invalidates Prisoner’s Telephonic Marriage to Material Witness
An incarcerated prisoner, rebuffed in his attempts to marry a material witness in an in-person ceremony at the jail, “married” her by telephone. U. S. District Judge Ralph Beistline has decided that the marriage did not meet Alaska state standards, and thus could not be the basis of an assertion of either the spousal testimonial […]