TITLE 26: ELECTIONS
CHAPTER I: STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS
PART 125 PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
SECTION 125.195 HOSTILE WITNESSES


 

Section 125.195  Hostile Witnesses

 

If the Hearing Examiner in an adjudicatory hearing determines that a witness is hostile or unwilling, the witness may be examined by the party calling him as if under cross-examination.  The party calling a witness, upon a showing that he called the witness in good faith and is surprised by his testimony, may impeach the witness by proof of prior inconsistent statements.

 

(Source:  Amended at 14 Ill. Reg. 10832, effective June 22, 1990)