CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Privileges
......Marital Privileges
.........Comment on Exercise of Privilege
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No comment allowed re exercise of privilege; party may request instruction that jury draw no inference from exercise.

No comment is permitted on the exercise of a privilege in civil cases as well as criminal.

Argument that jury should draw adverse inference against D for failure to produce wife to substantiate alibi reversible error.

DA's comment on D's exercise of privilege against self-incrimination.