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2010 Georgia Code
TITLE 24 - EVIDENCE
CHAPTER 9 - WITNESSES GENERALLY
ARTICLE 4 - CREDIBILITY
§ 24-9-81 - Impeachment of witnesses by any party; right to call, examine, and impeach opposite party
O.C.G.A. 24-9-81 (2010)24-9-81. Impeachment of witnesses by any party; right to call, examine, and impeach opposite party
Any party, including the party calling the witness, may attack the credibility of a witness. In the trial of all civil cases, either plaintiff or defendant shall be permitted to make the opposite party, or anyone for whose immediate benefit the action is prosecuted or defended, or any agent of said party, or agent of any person for whose immediate benefit such action is prosecuted or defended, or officer or agent of a corporation when a corporation is such party or for whose benefit such action is prosecuted or defended a witness, with the privilege of subjecting such witness to a thorough and sifting examination and with the further privilege of impeachment, as if the witness had testified in his or her own behalf and were being cross-examined.
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