CHAPTER 18
Evidence
§ 1481. Spouses.
§ 1482. Certain conversations with anthropologists privileged.
§ 1483. Official records.
Neither husband nor wife shall be compelled to
testify against the other in the trial of an information, complaint,
citation or other criminal proceeding.
Source: (Code 1966, § 341; Code 1970, tit. 7, § 1.) 7 TTC 11 § 1.
Subject to the limitations provided in this
section, conversations held with an anthropologist in confidence in his
professional character shall be privileged. No statement made in
such a conversation nor the substance thereof shall be divulged without
the consent of the person making it, nor shall the identity of any person
making such a statement on any particular subject be divulged without his
consent, except as provided herein. This privilege, however, shall
not extend to the professional opinions or conclusions of an
anthropologist even though they may be based in whole or in part on such
conversations, nor shall it or the prohibition against divulging such
statements or the identity of persons making them apply to admissions or
confessions indicating that the person making them has committed murder in
the first or second degree or voluntary manslaughter or is threatening to
commit a crime in the future.
Source: (Code 1966, § 342, Code 1970, tit. 7, § 2.) 7 TTC 1 § 2.
Books or records of account or minutes of proceedings of any department or agency of the United States of America or of the State of Chuuk Trust Territory, or of any predecessor thereof, shall be admissible to prove the act, transaction or occurrence as a memorandum of which the same were made or kept. Copies or transcripts (authenticated by the official having custody thereof) of any books, records, papers or documents of any department or agency of the United States of America or of the State of Chuuk Trust Territory, or of any
predecessor thereof, shall be admitted in evidence equally with the
originals thereof.
Source: (Code 1966, § 340; Code 1970, tit. 7, § 51.) 7 TTC 2 § 51, modified.