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compel testimony

vb. (context legal English) To officially require that a witness appear and testify before a court of law or other public authority, under threat of legally enforceable penalty for failure to do so.

Usage examples of "compel testimony".

Trying to move forward, Boulder PD had been lobbying for a grand jury investigation, figuring that such an entity could compel testimony that they could not.