Court Opinion

ID: 9601762
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 01:49:40.009459+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:59:25.472898
License: Public Domain

ANDREWS, Judge (specially concurring). I agree with the opinion and the result reached, however, I have this further comment in regard to Rule 505. While criticism of the husband wife privilege is fashionable, consideration of its abolition may be premature. The stresses of modern society make more attractive than ever before the prospect of a safe harbour of intimacy where spouses can confide in each other freely without fear that what they say will be published under compulsion. 2 Weinstein’s Evidence ¶ 505[03] (1979). The drastic remedy of abolition is not necessary. Rather, that portion of the rule not relating to “confidential communication” between husband and wife should be removed from Rule 505, New Mexico Rules of Evidence.