Shaun Kent
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Your due process has not been violated.
There is a spousal privilege that you cannot be forced to testify against your wife.
You've simply been asked to go to California and testify.
And as a matter of fact, if I'm not mistaken, one of David's dearest friends, I think his name was Neo, also got a subpoena.
Your lawyer cannot be forced to testify against you.
These are privileges that we have in the law.
There is not a privilege that exists between a person's mother, their father, their best friend, their neighbor.
He tried to avoid the subpoena and he got arrested.
And that's what the court said.
It's like, look, you cannot avoid subpoenas.
There are no privileges in that situation.
We've sent this properly, proper subpoena.
So yes, they can be forced to come and testify if called by a grand jury or any investigative body.
There's not a constitutional right to avoid legal process.
And that's what the court said.
Because if you think about it, in our Constitution, you are not allowed or you are not required to self-incriminate yourself.
So you can't bring somebody in and say, David said, we want you to testify in front of the grand jury and tell us everything you've done.
Well, David has a constitutional right.
We hear it all the time.