State Ex Rel. Kaufman v. Zakaib

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• holding “judicial officers may not be compelled to testify concerning their mental processes employed in formulating official judgments or the reasons that motivated them in their official acts.”
• “The prohibition against compelling the testimony of a judge is reflected in a long- standing principle of our jurisprudence, namely, that a court speaks only through its orders.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).