Empleo de guardias y compensación para testigos en procesos judiciales

Explicación Simple

Cuando alguien está en juicio, a veces se necesita ayuda extra para cuidar a los prisioneros o mantener el orden. El juez puede pedir a un guardia que ayude y decidir cuánto se le paga por su trabajo.

Es como cuando en un partido de fútbol el entrenador tiene que llamar a un jugador suplente para ayudar a mantener el juego en orden y decide cuánto le pagarán por su esfuerzo.

Ejemplo Práctico

Imagina que en un juicio, Juan, un prisionero acusado, está en la sala. El juez, preocupado por su seguridad, pide al alguacil que llame a dos guardias para que lo cuiden. El juez también determina cuánto se les pagará a esos guardias por su trabajo y los gastos de viaje.

Texto Original del Estatuto (Inglés)

Va. Code § 19.2-328 - When jailers and sheriffs to summon or employ guards and other persons; allowances therefor. Whenever in the discretion of the court it is necessary for the safekeeping of a prisoner under charge of, or sentence for, crime, whether the prisoner be in jail, hospital, court or elsewhere, the court may order the jailer to summon a sufficient guard, and whenever ordered by the court to do so, the sheriff of any county or city shall summon or employ temporarily such person or persons as may be needed to preserve proper order or otherwise to aid the court in its proper operation and functioning, and for such guard or other service the court may allow therefor so much as it deems proper, not exceeding the hourly equivalent of the minimum annual salary paid a full-time deputy sheriff who performs like services in the same county or city; in addition, mileage and other expenses for rendering the services shall be paid for each person, the same to be paid out of the budget allotted to the sheriff as approved by the Compensation Board, except when payment for such guard is otherwise provided under the provisions of § 53.1-94 of the Code of Virginia. Code 1950, § 19.1-308; 1960, c. 366; 1972, c. 225; 1973, c. 401; 1975, c. 495; 1981, c. 386; 1985, c. 321. Va. Code § 19.2-329 - Allowance to witnesses. Sections 17.1-612 to 17.1-616 , inclusive, shall apply to a person attending as a witness, under a recognizance or summons in a criminal case, as well as to a person attending under a summons in a civil case, except that a person residing out of this Commonwealth, who attends a court therein as a witness, shall be allowed by the court a proper compensation for attendance and travel to and from the place of his abode, the amount of the same to be fixed by the co