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COM. v. NEWMAN

534 Pa. 424 (1993)

633 A.2d 1069

COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, Appellee, v. Mary NEWMAN, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided November 1, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Graydon R. Brewer, Greenfield & Associates (court-appointed), Pittsburgh, for appellant.

Robert E. Colville, Dist. Atty., Claire C. Capristo, Deputy Dist. Atty., Kemal A. Mericli, Asst. Dist. Atty., Kevin F. McCarthy, Asst. Dist. Atty., Pittsburgh, for appellee.

Before NIX, C.J., and LARSEN, FLAHERTY, McDERMOTT, ZAPPALA, PAPADAKOS and CAPPY, JJ.

OPINION

ZAPPALA, Justice.

At issue in this appeal is the applicability of Act 16 of 1989, which rewrote the statutory provision dealing with spouses as witnesses against each other, 42 Pa.C.S. § 5913 (Supp.1993), and the interplay between that section and the provision dealing with confidential communications between spouses, 42 Pa.C.S. § 5914 (Supp.1993).

Mary Newman, the Appellant, was subpoenaed to testify at a coroner's inquest...

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