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2023 CODE OF GEORGIA
Title 24 - EVIDENCE (§§ 24-1-1 — 24-99-3)
Chapter 6 - WITNESSES (§§ 24-6-601 — 24-6-658)
Article 1 - GENERALLY (§§ 24-6-601 — 24-6-616)
Section 24-6-608 - Evidence of character and conduct of witness
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GA Code § 24-6-608 (2023)
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- (a) The credibility of a witness may be attacked or supported by evidence in the form of opinion or reputation, subject to the following limitations:
- (1) The evidence may refer only to character for truthfulness or untruthfulness; and
- (2) Evidence of truthful character shall be admissible only after the character of the witness for truthfulness has been attacked by opinion or reputation evidence or otherwise.
- (b) Specific instances of the conduct of a witness, for the purpose of attacking or supporting the witness's character for truthfulness, other than a conviction of a crime as provided in Code Section 24-6-609, or conduct indicative of the witness's bias toward a party may not be proved by extrinsic evidence. Such instances may however, in the discretion of the court, if probative of truthfulness or untruthfulness, be inquired into on cross-examination of the witness:
- (1) Concerning the witness's character for truthfulness or untruthfulness; or
- (2) Concerning the character for truthfulness or untruthfulness of another witness as to which character the witness being cross-examined has testified.
- (c) The giving of testimony, whether by an accused or by any other witness, shall not operate as a waiver of the accused's or the witness's privilege against self-incrimination when examined with respect to matters which relate only to character for truthfulness.
Added by 2011 Ga. Laws 52,§ 2, eff. 1/1/2013.
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