STATE STATUTES & CODES

PENNSYLVANIA STATUTES AND CODES

Chapter 59 - Depositions and Witnesses

• 5901 - Judicial oath.
• 5902 - Effect of religious beliefs.
• 5903 - Compensation and expenses of witnesses.
• 5904 - Subpoena of witnesses.
• 5905 - Subpoenas. CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS
• 5911 - Competency of witnesses generally.
• 5912 - Effect of prior convictions.
• 5913 - Spouses as witnesses against each other.
• 5914 - Confidential communications between spouses.
• 5915 - Testimony by spouse in rebuttal.
• 5916 - Confidential communications to attorney.
• 5917 - Notes of evidence at former trial.
• 5918 - Examination of defendant as to other offenses.
• 5919 - Depositions in criminal matters. CIVIL MATTERS
• 5921 - Interest not to disqualify.
• 5922 - Disqualification by perjury.
• 5923 - Confidential communications between spouses.
• 5924 - Spouses as witnesses against each other.
• 5925 - Testimony by married person against spouse in rebuttal.
• 5926 - Testimony by spouse after attack on character or conduct.
• 5927 - Actions by spouse to recover separate property.
• 5928 - Confidential communications to attorney.
• 5929 - Physicians not to disclose information.
• 5930 - Surviving party as witness, in case of death, mental incapacity, etc.
• 5931 - Incompetent witnesses.
• 5932 - Witness competent to testify against interest; to become competent upon release of interest.
• 5933 - Competency of surviving party.
• 5934 - Notes of evidence at former trial.
• 5935 - Examination of person adversely interested.
• 5936 - Medical testimony by deposition. CERTAIN PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES
• 5941 - Persons who may be compelled to testify.
• 5942 - Confidential communications to news reporters.
• 5943 - Confidential communications to clergymen.
• 5944 - Confidential communications to psychiatrists or licensed psychologists.
• 5945 - Confidential communications to school personnel.
• 5945.1 - Confidential communications with sexual assault counselors.
• 5945.2 - Confidential communications to crime stopper or similar anticrime program.
• 5946 - Competency of certain witnesses where political subdivision is a party.
• 5947 - Immunity of witnesses.
• 5948 - Confidential communications to qualified professionals.
• 5949 - Confidential mediation communications and documents.
• 5950 - Confidential communications involving law enforcement officers.
• 5951 - Confidential communications involving public safety responders and corrections officers.
• 5952 - Confidential communications to peer support members.
• 5961 - Short title of subchapter.
• 5962 - Definitions.
• 5963 - Summoning witness in this Commonwealth to testify in another state.
• 5964 - Witness from another state summoned to testify in this Commonwealth.
• 5965 - Exemption from arrest and service of process.
• 5971 - Short title of subchapter.
• 5972 - Definitions.
• 5973 - Scope of subchapter.
• 5974 - Summoning prisoner in this Commonwealth to testify in another state.
• 5975 - Court order.
• 5976 - Terms and conditions.
• 5977 - Prisoner from another state summoned to testify in this Commonwealth.
• 5978 - Compliance.
• 5979 - Exemption from arrest and service of process.
• 5981 - Declaration of policy.
• 5982 - Definitions.
• 5983 - Rights and services.
• 5984 - Videotaped depositions (Repealed).
• 5984.1 - Recorded testimony.
• 5985 - Testimony by contemporaneous alternative method.
• 5985.1 - Admissibility of certain statements.
• 5986 - Hearsay.
• 5987 - Use of dolls.
• 5988 - Victims of sexual or physical abuse.

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