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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 24. EVIDENCE · Chapter 4. RELEVANT EVIDENCE AND ITS LIMITS

24-4-408. Compromises and offers to compromise.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. (a)

    Except as provided in Code Section 9-11-68, evidence of:#

    1. (1)

      Furnishing, offering, or promising to furnish; or#

    2. (2)

      Accepting, offering, or promising to accept#

      1. a valuable consideration in compromising or attempting to compromise a claim which was disputed as to either validity or amount shall not be admissible to prove liability for or invalidity of any claim or its amount.

  2. (b)

    Evidence of conduct or statements made in compromise negotiations or mediation shall not be admissible.#

  3. (c)

    This Code section shall not require the exclusion of any evidence otherwise discoverable merely because it is presented in the course of compromise negotiations or mediation. This Code section shall not require exclusion of evidence offered for another purpose, including, but not limited to, proving bias or prejudice of a witness, negating a contention of undue delay or abuse of process, or proving an effort to obstruct a criminal investigation or prosecution.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 24-4-408, enacted by Ga. L. 2011, p. 99, § 2/HB 24.

Cross references

Compromise offers and negotiations, Fed. R. Evid. 408.

Law reviews

For annual survey on evidence, see 65 Mercer L. Rev. 125 (2013).

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t24-ch1-7-(v20)-2023-pdf.pdf, Volume V20, 2023 edition, pages 279 to 280; merge action: annotated; file SHA-256 f2f9d1712dd4.