24-5-505. Party or witness privilege.

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Actualizado hasta: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

El texto siguiente es la ley tal como la imprime el estado, en inglés.

(a)
No party or witness shall be required to testify as to any matter which may incriminate or tend to incriminate such party or witness or which shall tend to bring infamy, disgrace, or public contempt upon such party or witness or any member of such party or witness’s family.#
(b)
Except in proceedings in which a judgment creditor or judgment creditor’s successor in interest seeks postjudgment discovery involving a judgment debtor pursuant to Code Section 9-11-69, no party or witness shall be required to testify as to any matter which shall tend to work a forfeiture of his or her estate.#
(c)
No official persons shall be called on to disclose any state matters of which the policy of the state and the interest of the community require concealment.#

Las notas siguientes se imprimen con la sección, pero no son ley promulgada (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). Se muestran aparte del texto.

History

Code 1981, § 24-5-505, enacted by Ga. L. 2011, p. 99, § 2/HB 24.

Cross references

Prohibition against compelled self-incrimination, Ga. Const. 1983, Art. I, Sec. I, Para. XVI.

Law reviews

For comment discussing the privilege against answers tending to disgrace but not incriminate, see 18 Ga. B.J. 88 (1955). For comment, “The Government’s Privilege to Withhold the Identity of Informers, as Applied to Decoys,” see 20 Ga. B.J. 562 (1958). For note discussing discovery proceedings available to creditors, see 12 Ga. L. Rev. 814 (1978). For article, “Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Invocation of the Privilege Against Self-Incrimination in Civil Cases,” see 15 (No. 1) Ga. St. B.J. 14 (2009).

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Actualizado hasta: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Texto leído de t24-ch1-7-(v20)-2023-pdf.pdf, Volumen V20, edición 2023, páginas 384 a 385; acción de fusión: annotated; SHA-256 del archivo f2f9d1712dd4.