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2022 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
Chapter 59 - Depositions and Witnesses
Section 5991 - Declaration of policy
Universal Citation: 42 PA Cons Stat § 5991 (2022)
§ 5991. Declaration of policy.
In order to promote the best interests of residents of this Commonwealth with intellectual disabilities or autism who are material witnesses or victims of crime, the General Assembly declares its intent, in this subchapter, to provide, where necessity is shown, procedures that will protect material witnesses or victims of crime with intellectual disabilities or autism during their involvement with the criminal justice system.
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