6 Guam Code Ann. § 3104
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- Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
- Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
- Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
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.
SOURCE: CCP § 2065, modified.
CROSS-REFERENCE: § 609 of this Title.
COMMENT: This Section has been changed to refer to the controlling portions of Division 1 and to the full scope of the Fifth Amendment Privilege, which protects a person from incriminating himself not only in cases of possible felonies, but also in all other criminal cases.