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Criminal Practice

Superior Court Allows Texts From Wife in Child-Abuse Prosecution

The Legal Intelligencer

February 5, 2013

Carving out an exception to the state's spousal communication privilege law, the state Superior Court has ruled text messages exchanged between a married couple should be admitted as evidence in a criminal prosecution where it is alleged the wife brutally beat her husband's 4-year-old son.

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