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Fourth District: Privileged Witnesses

By Matt Conigliaro, Esq.

A court does not abuse its discretion in excluding testimony when cross-examination on material issues raised on direct examination is curtailed because of a witness?s valid claim of privilege. So held the Fourth District in this case, which involved a defendant who claimed error after the trial court excluded the defendant's son. The son had invoked his Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate

Full post as published by Abstract Appeal on July 21, 2008 (boomark / email).