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2011 North Carolina General Statutes
Chapter 8 Evidence.
Article 7 - Competency of Witnesses.
- 8-49. Witness not excluded by interest or crime.
- 8-50. Parties competent as witnesses.
- 8-50.1. Competency of blood tests; jury charge; taxing of expenses as costs.
- 8-50.2. Results of speed-measuring instruments; admissibility.
- 8-50.3: Expired September 30, 2007.
- 8-51: Repealed by Session Laws 1983 (Regular Session, 1984), c. 1037, s. 5.
- 8-51.1. Dying declarations.
- 8-52. Repealed by Session Laws 1973, c. 41.
- 8-53. Communications between physician and patient.
- 8-53.1. Physician-patient and nurse privilege; limitations.
- 8-53.2. Communications between clergymen and communicants.
- 8-53.3. Communications between psychologist and client or patient.
- 8-53.4. School counselor privilege.
- 8-53.5. Communications between licensed marital and family therapist and client(s).
- 8-53.6. No disclosure in alimony and divorce actions.
- 8-53.7. Social worker privilege.
- 8-53.8. Counselor privilege.
- 8-53.9. Optometrist/patient privilege.
- 8-53.10. Peer support group counselors.
- 8-53.11. Persons, companies, or other entities engaged in gathering or dissemination of news.
- 8-53.12. Communications with agents of rape crisis centers and domestic violence programs privileged.
- 8-53.13. Nurse privilege.
- 8-54. Defendant in criminal action competent but not compellable to testify.
- 8-55. Testimony enforced in certain criminal investigations; immunity.
- 8-56. Husband and wife as witnesses in civil action.
- 8-57. Husband and wife as witnesses in criminal actions.
- 8-57.1. Husband-wife privilege waived in child abuse.
- 8-57.2. Presumed father or mother as witnesses where paternity at issue.
- 8-58: Repealed by Session Laws 1973, c. 1286, ss. 11, 26.
- 8-58.1. Injured party as witness when medical charges at issue.
- 8-58.2. Reserved for future codification purposes.
- 8-58.3. Reserved for future codification purposes.
- 8-58.4. Reserved for future codification purposes.
- 8-58.5. Reserved for future codification purposes.
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