2021 Georgia Code
Title 16 - Crimes and Offenses
Chapter 11 - Offenses Against Public Order and Safety
Article 3 - Invasions of Privacy
Part 1 - Wiretapping, Eavesdropping, Surveillance, and Related Offenses
§ 16-11-68. Admissibility of Privileged Communications
Nothing contained within this part shall permit the introduction into evidence of any communication which is privileged by the laws of this state or by the decisions of the appellate courts thereof.
(Ga. L. 1967, p. 844, § 1; Code 1933, § 26-3008, enacted by Ga. L. 1968, p. 1249, § 1.)
Cross references.- Privileged communications generally, § 24-5-506 et seq.
JUDICIAL DECISIONS
Cited in State v. Birge, 240 Ga. 501, 241 S.E.2d 213 (1978).
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 81 Am. Jur. 2d, Witnesses, § 273 et seq.
C.J.S.- 98 C.J.S., Witnesses, § 421 et seq.
ALR.
- Admissibility of telephone conversations in evidence, 71 A.L.R. 5; 105 A.L.R. 326.
Admissibility of evidence obtained by government or other public officer by intercepting letter or telegraph or telephone message, 134 A.L.R. 614.
Mode of establishing that information obtained by illegal wiretapping has or has not led to evidence introduced by prosecution, 28 A.L.R.2d 1055.
Persons other than client or attorney affected by, or included within, attorney-client privilege, 96 A.L.R.2d 125; 31 A.L.R.4th 1226.
Construction of statute creating privilege against disclosure of communications made to stenographer or confidential clerk, 96 A.L.R.2d 159.
Admissibility, in criminal prosecution, of evidence obtained by electronic surveillance of prisoner, 57 A.L.R.3d 172.
Propriety of governmental eavesdropping on communications between accused and his attorney, 44 A.L.R.4th 841.
