FEDERAL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURES (CRIMINAL)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP58-00453R000300120096-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 19, 2000
• Sequence Number: 96
• Publication Date: January 1, 1955
• Content Type: MISC

Approved For Release 2006/10/18: CIA-RDP58-00453R000300120096-4
Federal Practice and Procedure (Criminal)
Rule 26. Evidence
In all trials the testimony of witnesses shall be taken orally in
open court, unless otherwise provided by an act of Congress or by these
rules. The admissibility of evidence and the competency and privileges
of witnesses shall be governed, except when an act of Congress or these
rules otherwise provide, by the principles of the common law as they may
be interpreted by the courts of the United States in the light of reason
and experience.
District of Columbia Code
S11+-308. Testimony of physicians--Inapplicable in criminal cases.
In the courts of the District of Columbia no physician or surgeon
shall be permitted, without the consent of the person afflicted, or of
his legal representative, to disclose any information, confidential in
its nature, which he shall have acquired in attending a patient in a pro-
fessional capacity and which was necessary to enable him to act in that
capacity, whether such information shalt have been obtained from the patient
or from his family or from the person or persons in charge of him: PROVIDED,
That this section shall not apply to evidence in criminal cases where the
accused is charged with causing the death of, or inflicting injuries upon
a human being, and the disclosure shall be required in the interests of
public justice.
Federal Practice and Procedure (civil)
Rule 4+3. Evidence
(a) Form and Admissibility. In all trials the testimony of witnesses
shall be taken orally in open court, unless otherwise provided by these
rules. All evidence shall be admitted which is admissible under the
statutes of the United States, or under the rules of evidence heretofore
applied in the courts of the United States on the hearing of suits in
equity, or under the rules of evidence applied in the courts of general
jurisdiction of the state in which the United States court is held. In
any case, the statute or rule which favors the reception of the evidence
governs and the evidence shall be presented according to the most convenient
method prescribed in any of the statutes or rules to which reference is
herein made. The competency of a witness to testify shall be determined in like
manner.
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