{"content":[{"text":"Key: (1) language to be deleted (2) new language \n CHAPTER 302--S.F.No. 3441","bbox":{"left":0.15126,"top":0.094447,"width":0.477775,"height":0.04138700000000001}},{"text":"An act \n relating to courts; limiting testimony of domestic abuse advocates without \n consent of victims; amending Minnesota Statutes 2007 Supplement, section \n 595.02, subdivision 1. \n BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:","bbox":{"left":0.15126,"top":0.152865,"width":0.695149,"height":0.08558099999999999}},{"text":"Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2007 Supplement, section 595.02, subdivision 1, \n is \n amended to read: \n Subdivision 1. Competency of witnesses. Every person of sufficient \n understanding, \n including a party, may testify in any action or proceeding, civil or criminal, in \n court or \n before any person who has authority to receive evidence, except as provided in \n this \n subdivision: \n (a) A husband cannot be examined for or against his wife without her consent, \n nor a \n wife for or against her husband without his consent, nor can either, during the \n marriage or \n afterwards, without the consent of the other, be examined as to any \n communication made \n by one to the other during the marriage. This exception does not apply to a civil \n action or \n proceeding by one against the other, nor to a criminal action or proceeding for a \n crime \n committed by one against the other or against a child of either or against a child \n under the \n care of either spouse, nor to a criminal action or proceeding in which one is \n charged with \n homicide or an attempt to commit homicide and the date of the marriage of the \n defendant \n is subsequent to the date of the offense, nor to an action or proceeding for \n nonsupport, \n neglect, dependency, or termination of parental rights. \n (b) An attorney cannot, without the consent of the attorney's client, be \n examined as \n to any communication made by the client to the attorney or the attorney's advice \n given \n thereon in the course of professional duty; nor can any employee of the attorney \n be \n examined as to the communication or advice, without the client's consent. \n (c) A member of the clergy or other minister of any religion shall not, without \n the","bbox":{"left":0.15126,"top":0.255478,"width":0.691155,"height":0.6499510000000001}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}