{"data":{"id":"us-gu/6-gca-3104","jurisdiction":"us-gu","citation":"6 GCA § 3104","heading":"Witnesses Bound to Answer Questions.","body":"A witness must answer questions legal and pertinent to the matter in issue, though his answer may establish a claim against himself, but he need not give an answer which will have a tendency to subject him to punishment for a crime, nor need he give an answer which will have a direct tendency to degrade his character, unless his be the very fact in issue, or to a fact from which the fact in issue will be presumed. What a witness must answer as to the fact of his previous conviction for a felony, if ordered by the judge shall be governed by Division 1 of this Title.","path":["Title 6: Guam Rules of Evidence","Division 2 - Principles of Evidence","Chapter 3: Witnesses","ARTICLE 1: WITNESSES GENERALLY"],"source_url":"https://col.guamcourts.gov/sites/default/files/6gc2c3.pdf","current_through":"P.L. 38-133 (June 4, 2026)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-27T02:29:08Z","sha256":"d46558915c99e78661a2bde2fbbbbc9c976a83f0d012a94db3f53252114a54ea","source_id":"us-gu","stale":false,"prev":"us-gu/6-gca-3103","next":"us-gu/6-gca-3105"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}