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2016 Utah Code
Title 78B - Judicial Code
Chapter 1 - Juries and Witnesses
Part 1 - Jury and Witness Act
Section 134 - Witnesses -- Duty to answer questions -- Privilege.

UT Code § 78B-1-134 (2016) What's This?
78B-1-134. Witnesses -- Duty to answer questions -- Privilege.
  • (1) A witness shall answer all questions legal and pertinent to the matter in issue, although an answer may establish a claim against the witness.
  • (2) A witness need not give an answer which will subject him to punishment for a felony.
  • (3) A witness need not give an answer which will degrade his character, unless it is to the very fact in issue or to a fact from which the fact in issue would be presumed.
  • (4) A witness must answer as to the fact of any previous conviction of a felony.


Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 3, 2008 General Session

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