Georgia § 24-5-505 - Party or witness privilege.
Full text of Georgia Official Code of Georgia Annotated § 24-5-505 — Party or witness privilege., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 24-5-505. Party or witness privilege.
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. 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. 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. (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 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). For note discussing discovery proceedings available to creditors, see 12 Ga. L. Rev. 814 (1978). 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).
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Section 24-5-505 ("Party or witness privilege.") is part of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, the codified statutory law of Georgia. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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