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The weirdness. Youve just got to dive right in. Lets start with a subpoena. Lets say you get subpoenaed by prosecutors, that subpoena directs you to hand over documents and materials. Now, you can fight that subpoena. You can argue over it in court. But ultimately the point of a subpoena is that youre being asked, youre being directed to hand stuff over that is responsive to the prosecutors demands. Now, lets say prosecutors have reason to believe that you cant be trusted to do that. They do want documents and materials from you because of some investigation youre relevant to. They intend to get those documents and materials. But they dont trust you. They have reason not to trust you. They think if they issue you a subpoena, if they give you a demand to hand this stuff over they think, they have good reason to believe that you might instead of handing them over, you might destroy those things. Or you might hide them or you might otherwise mess up the evidence that prosecutors are after

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