Title 5, Judicial Procedure

(a) Every person who has been, in good faith, served with a subpoena to attend as witness before a court, judge, commissioner, referee, or other officer, is exonerated from arrest or service of summons in a civil case while going to the place of attendance, necessarily remaining …

It is the right of the witness to be protected from irrelevant, insulting, or improper questions or from harsh or insulting demeanor; to be detained only so long as the interests of justice require it; and to be examined only as to matters legal and pertinent to the issue.

A person voluntarily present in court or before a judicial officer may be required to testify in the same manner as if he were in attendance before such court or officer on a subpoena.

If the witness is a prisoner, confined in a prison within the Virgin Islands, an order for his temporary removal and production, before a court or officer, for the purpose of being orally examined, may be made by the Superior Court of the Virgin Islands. Such order shall only be …

The marshal or any deputy specially appointed by him, but none other, is authorized and required to break into any building or vessel in which a witness may be concealed, so as to prevent the service of a subpoena, and serve the same upon such witness.

A witness attending in the Superior Court of the Virgin Islands, or before any person authorized to take his deposition pursuant to any rule or order of court, shall receive $4 for each day's attendance and for the time necessarily occupied in going to and returning from the same…

Every warrant of commitment issued by a court or officer for contempt arising from disobedience to a subpoena, or refusal to be sworn, or to answer as a witness, or to subscribe an affidavit or deposition when required, shall specify therein the cause of the commitment; and if it…