§ 16-1005(b) provides: Notwithstanding § 14-306, in a hearing under this section, one spouse shall be a competent and compellable witness against the other and may testify as to confidential communications, but testimony compelled over a claim of privilege conferred by such section shall be inadmissible in evidence in a criminal trial over the objection of a spouse entitled to claim that privilege. 10 . D.C.Code § 16-2359(e) provides: Notwithstanding the provisions of D.C.Code §§ 14-306 and 14-307, neither the husband-wife privilege nor the physician-client or mental health professional-client privilege shall be a ground for excluding evidence in any proceeding brought under this subchapter. 11 . See Wyatt v. United States, 362 U.S. 525, 528, 80 S.Ct. 901, 903, 4 L.Ed.2d 931 (1960) (<HOLDING>); see also Trammel v. United States, 445 U.S.
recognizing privilege holding that marital communications which arise from an act of violence by a spouse committed against the children of either spouse should constitute an exception to the marital privilege because such communications fail to satisfy the conditions underlying the creation of the privilege holding that there is no spousal exception to the statute holding that absent an actionable injury to one spouse the other spouse cannot recover for loss of consortium recognizing an exception based on necessity to the federal privilege for adverse spousal testimony for cases in which one spouse commits a crime against the other mann act prosecution