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No Spousal Privilege in Pennsylvania Criminal Child-Abuse Cases

Filed under: Criminal Law, News Tags: by Steven F. Fairlie @ March 3, 2012

A Pennsylvania judge has ruled that incriminating text messages between a husband and wife may be used as evidence in the woman’s child abuse trial. In Commonwealth v. Hunter, the defendant was charged with aggravated assault, endangering the welfare of a child, simple assault and criminal conspiracy to endanger the welfare of a child after […]

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