{"id":95085,"date":"2005-11-01T04:34:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-01T04:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a510cfb8-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2005-11-01T04:34:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-01T04:34:00","slug":"a510cfc9-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/a510cfc9-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Court issues split decision on request to strike out testimony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Superior Court yesterday gave a split decision on the request of a businessman to strike out the testimony of his employee as evidence in a lawsuit filed by the Saipan Achugao Resort Members\u2019 Association.<\/p>\n<p>Associate Judge David Wiseman ruled that portions of the testimony of one Richard Mendiola should be stricken as requested by businessman Wan Jin Yoon.<\/p>\n<p>Wiseman ruled that those statements were privileged information based on Yoon\u2019s relationship with his attorney.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe attorney-client evidentiary privilege is supported by a policy, which promotes the free and candid discussion of all matters related to the provision of legal services between attorney and client,\u201d noted Wiseman, citing precedent rulings.<\/p>\n<p>However, the judge ruled that part of Mendiola\u2019s testimony should not be stricken because it discussed communications made by Yoon when the latter\u2019s attorney was not present.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose communications and the resulting testimony are not subject to any privilege and will not be stricken,\u201d Wiseman said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Superior Court yesterday gave a split decision on the request of a businessman to strike out the testimony of his employee as evidence in a lawsuit filed by the Saipan Achugao Resort Members\u2019 Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}