{"data":{"id":"us-mt/26-2-302","jurisdiction":"us-mt","citation":"26-2-302","heading":"Witness required to answer questions.","body":"A witness shall answer questions legal and pertinent to the matter in issue though the answer may establish a claim against the witness. However, the witness is not required to give an answer that will have a tendency to subject the witness to punishment for a felony or to give an answer that will have a direct tendency to degrade the witness's character unless the answer is to the very fact in issue or to a fact from which the fact in issue would be presumed.","path":["TITLE 26. EVIDENCE","CHAPTER 2. SUBPOENAS AND WITNESSES","Part 3. Duties of Witnesses"],"source_url":"https://mca.legmt.gov/bills/mca/title_0260/chapter_0020/part_0030/section_0020/0260-0020-0030-0020.html","current_through":"Montana Code Annotated 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T04:50:21Z","sha256":"b8be389764a44420ce5e9887fab5ab7490b5853574bf4f460b8e3c4d2c02e1f6","source_id":"us-mt","stale":false,"prev":"us-mt/26-2-301","next":"us-mt/26-2-303"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}