Sadleir v. Young, Sheriff’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “I do not think the statute in question, as to the portion thereof having reference to answers directly tending to degrade the witness's character, fairly susceptible of an interpretation which limits the privilege to refusing to answer such questions as are directed to matters not directly material to the issue. The statute reads that the answer to such question must be given only where it is `to the very fact in issue' or to `a fact from which the fact in issue would be presumed.' (Italics added.) If by the last quoted portion of the statute the legislature meant `a fact from which, taken in connection with all the other facts and circumstances in the case, the fact in issue may be inferred', it might well have said so.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 15 Utah 2d 27 - In Re Peterson