Timeline for Force person on stand to only say, yes or no, legal?
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| Mar 8, 2017 at 14:57 | comment | added | Jarrod Christman | Based on the answers, this one seems to be the best. If a better one comes along I'll accept that one instead. Thank you for the information, definitely something that's been bugging me for some time. | |
| Mar 8, 2017 at 14:56 | vote | accept | Jarrod Christman | ||
| Mar 7, 2017 at 21:43 | comment | added | user6726 | I'm now looking through stuff that indicates that a non-defendant witness may or may not be able to invoke the 5th on cross-examination, so my 5th amendment claim is on hold for the moment. | |
| Mar 7, 2017 at 21:15 | comment | added | user6726 | Yes to the first, no to the second. You can proffer a non yes/no explanation, and have a 5th amendment fall-back in the unlikely event that the judge is inclined to force you to give a response that puts you in the perjury bind. | |
| Mar 7, 2017 at 19:52 | comment | added | feetwet♦ | So you're saying that rules of court do allow an attorney to demand yes/no answers? And that the only real "defense" available to a witness is to decline to answer on 5th-amendment grounds any question that he feels would be ambiguous or misleading with a binary answer? | |
| Mar 7, 2017 at 18:40 | history | answered | user6726 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |