Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1963
Abstract
The recent development in American federal criminal evidence law to be examined and compared with English law in this paper, is a new evolutionary turn taken by the husband-wife privilege against adverse spousal testimony, manifest in the Supreme Court decision of Wyatt v. United States. The House of Lords, in Rumping v. D.P.P., just decided, suggests that the English spousal privileges might be susceptible of similar development.
Publication Citation
International and Comparative Law Quarterly, Vol. 12, 1963, 1189-1205.
Scholarly Commons Citation
Rothstein, Paul F., "A Re-Evaluation of the Privilege Against Adverse Spousal Testimony in the Light of Its Purpose" (1963). Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works. 2259.
https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/2259
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