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2016 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes
Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
Chapter 59 - Depositions and Witnesses
Subchapter A. Witnesses Generally- Section 5901 - Judicial oath
- Section 5902 - Effect of religious beliefs
- Section 5903 - Compensation and expenses of witnesses
- Section 5904 - Subpoena of witnesses
- Section 5905 - Subpoenas
- Section 5911 - Competency of witnesses generally
- Section 5912 - Effect of prior convictions
- Section 5913 - Spouses as witnesses against each other
- Section 5914 - Confidential communications between spouses
- Section 5915 - Testimony by spouse in rebuttal
- Section 5916 - Confidential communications to attorney
- Section 5917 - Notes of evidence at former trial
- Section 5918 - Examination of defendant as to other offenses
- Section 5919 - Depositions in criminal matters
- Section 5920 - Expert testimony in certain criminal proceedings
- Section 5921 - Interest not to disqualify
- Section 5922 - Disqualification by perjury
- Section 5923 - Confidential communications between spouses
- Section 5924 - Spouses as witnesses against each other
- Section 5925 - Testimony by married person against spouse in rebuttal
- Section 5926 - Testimony by spouse after attack on character or conduct
- Section 5927 - Actions by spouse to recover separate property
- Section 5928 - Confidential communications to attorney
- Section 5929 - Physicians not to disclose information
- Section 5930 - Surviving party as witness, in case of death, mental incapacity, etc
- Section 5931 - Incompetent witnesses
- Section 5932 - Witness competent to testify against interest; to become competent upon release of interest
- Section 5933 - Competency of surviving party
- Section 5934 - Notes of evidence at former trial
- Section 5935 - Examination of person adversely interested
- Section 5936 - Medical testimony by deposition
- Section 5941 - Persons who may be compelled to testify
- Section 5942 - Confidential communications to news reporters
- Section 5943 - Confidential communications to clergymen
- Section 5944 - Confidential communications to psychiatrists or licensed psychologists
- Section 5945 - Confidential communications to school personnel
- Section 5945.1 - Confidential communications with sexual assault counselors.
- Section 5945.2 - Confidential communications to crime stopper or similar anticrime program
- Section 5945.3 - Confidential communications with human trafficking caseworkers
- Section 5946 - Competency of certain witnesses where political subdivision is a party
- Section 5947 - Immunity of witnesses
- Section 5948 - Confidential communications to qualified professionals
- Section 5949 - Confidential mediation communications and documents
- Section 5950 - Confidential communications involving law enforcement officers
- Section 5951 - Confidential communications involving public safety responders and corrections officers
- Section 5952 - Confidential communications to peer support members
- Section 5961 - Short title of subchapter
- Section 5962 - Definitions
- Section 5963 - Summoning witness in this Commonwealth to testify in another state
- Section 5964 - Witness from another state summoned to testify in this Commonwealth
- Section 5965 - Exemption from arrest and service of process
- Section 5971 - Short title of subchapter
- Section 5972 - Definitions
- Section 5973 - Scope of subchapter
- Section 5974 - Summoning prisoner in this Commonwealth to testify in another state
- Section 5975 - Court order
- Section 5976 - Terms and conditions
- Section 5977 - Prisoner from another state summoned to testify in this Commonwealth
- Section 5978 - Compliance
- Section 5979 - Exemption from arrest and service of process
- Section 5981 - Declaration of policy
- Section 5982 - Definitions
- Section 5983 - Rights and services
- Section 5984 - Videotaped depositions (Repealed)
- Section 5984.1 - Recorded testimony
- Section 5985 - Testimony by contemporaneous alternative method
- Section 5985.1 - Admissibility of certain statements
- Section 5986 - Hearsay
- Section 5987 - Use of dolls
- Section 5988 - Victims of sexual or physical abuse
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