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and tendered fees and mileage as required by Rule 147(c) and Rule
148. Petitioner left some of the subpoenas at respondent’s
disclosure office in Baltimore. To comply with Rule 147(c), a
subpoena must be personally served on the witness by a person
other than a party. Petitioner testified that it would be
difficult to locate respondent’s employees to accomplish personal
service. At trial on October 22, 2001, and January 5, 2004,
petitioner said he did not believe fees needed to be paid to
Government employees. Petitioner admitted that he did not tender
any fees for the January 2004 subpoenas. We conclude that
petitioner did not comply with the personal service and fees and
mileage requirements for issuing subpoenas.7 See Rules 147(c),
148(b).
D. Whether the Court’s Denial of Petitioner’s Motions To Recuse
the Trial Judge and for a Hearing Was Proper
Petitioner has made several motions to recuse the trial
Judge. We reaffirm our denial of those motions.
After the record closed, petitioner filed two motions for a
hearing on petitioner’s motion to sanction respondent under Rule
104(c) in which petitioner alleged that respondent’s counsel
fraudulently failed to provide to petitioner a copy of Forms 895
before December 28, 2001. We denied petitioner’s motions. We
7 In light of this conclusion, we need not decide whether
the testimony of the subpoenaed witnesses would have been
relevant.
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