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Depositions and Witnesses

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Judicial oath

Effect of religious beliefs

Compensation and expenses of witnesses

Subpoena of witnesses

Subpoenas

Competency of witnesses generally

Effect of prior convictions

Spouses as witnesses against each other

Confidential communications between spouses

Testimony by spouse in rebuttal

Confidential communications to attorney

Notes of evidence at former trial

Examination of defendant as to other offenses

Depositions in criminal matters

Expert testimony in certain criminal proceedings

Interest not to disqualify

Disqualification by perjury

Confidential communications between spouses

Spouses as witnesses against each other

Testimony by married person against spouse in rebuttal

Testimony by spouse after attack on character or conduct

Actions by spouse to recover separate property

Confidential communications to attorney

Physicians not to disclose information

Surviving party as witness, in case of death, mental incapacity, etc

Incompetent witnesses

Witness competent to testify against interest; to become competent upon release of interest

Competency of surviving party

Notes of evidence at former trial

Examination of person adversely interested

Medical testimony by deposition

Persons who may be compelled to testify

Confidential communications to news reporters

Confidential communications to clergymen

Confidential communications to psychiatrists or licensed psychologists

Confidential communications to school personnel

Confidential communications with sexual assault counselors.

Confidential communications to crime stopper or similar anticrime program

Confidential communications with human trafficking caseworkers

Competency of certain witnesses where political subdivision is a party

Immunity of witnesses

Confidential communications to qualified professionals

Confidential mediation communications and documents

Confidential communications involving law enforcement officers

Confidential communications involving public safety responders and corrections officers

Confidential communications to peer support members

Short title of subchapter

Definitions

Summoning witness in this Commonwealth to testify in another state

Witness from another state summoned to testify in this Commonwealth

Exemption from arrest and service of process

Short title of subchapter

Definitions

Scope of subchapter

Summoning prisoner in this Commonwealth to testify in another state

Court order

Terms and conditions

Prisoner from another state summoned to testify in this Commonwealth

Compliance

Exemption from arrest and service of process

Declaration of policy

Definitions

Rights and services

Videotaped depositions (Repealed)

Recorded testimony

Testimony by contemporaneous alternative method

Admissibility of certain statements

Hearsay

Use of dolls

Victims of sexual or physical abuse

Declaration of policy

Definitions

Admissibility of certain statements

Chapter Notes