{"id":2725,"date":"2021-08-09T05:13:51","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T09:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/?p=2725"},"modified":"2021-08-07T17:14:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T21:14:13","slug":"massachusetts-supreme-judicial-court-decides-parent-child-testimony-privilege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/massachusetts-supreme-judicial-court-decides-parent-child-testimony-privilege\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Decides Parent-Child Testimony Privilege"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Decides Parent-Child Testimony Privilege<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In Massachusetts evidence law, there are limits on who may give testimony in various civil and criminal proceedings. One set of limitations is found in a Massachusetts statute that applies to the testimony of a parent or minor child against another in a criminal, delinquency, and youthful offender proceedings where the victim is not a family member and does not reside in the household. But can a parent testify against their own child? The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court recently decided the case of <a href=\"https:\/\/law.justia.com\/cases\/massachusetts\/supreme-court\/2021\/sjc-13087.html\"><em>Commonwealth v. Eli Vigiani<\/em><\/a>, which asks the question of whether under Massachusetts law, a parent is disqualified from being called to testify in their child\u2019s defense at an evidentiary hearing for a motion to suppress.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">This case concludes that while Massachusetts law prevents the prosecution from calling in the child\u2019s parents to testify against the child, it does allow for the child to call in their parents as a witness for their defense, and in turn, the state is permitted to cross-examine the parents.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/massachusetts-supreme-judicial-court-decides-parent-child-testimony-privilege\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Decides Parent-Child Testimony Privilege\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Decides Parent-Child Testimony Privilege In Massachusetts evidence law, there are limits on who may give testimony in various civil and criminal proceedings. One set of limitations is found in a Massachusetts statute that applies to the testimony of a parent or minor child against another in a criminal, delinquency, and youthful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-massachusetts-court-decisions","category-important-sjc-decisions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Decides Parent-Child Testimony Privilege &#8212; Massachusetts Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog &#8212; August 9, 2021<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Decides Parent-Child Testimony Privilege In Massachusetts evidence law, there are limits on who may give testimony in &#8212; 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