Garrett John v. Brianna Freeman John

STATE OF LOUISIANA COURT OF APPEAL, FIRST CIRCUIT GARRETT JOHN NO. 2025 CW 1270 VERSUS BRIANNA FREEMAN JOHN MARCH 23, 2026 In Re: Garrett John, applying for supervisory writs, 32nd Judicial District Court, Parish of Terrebonne, No. 196464.

BEFORE : McCLENDON, C.J., GREENE AND STROMBERG, JJ.

WRIT GRANTED. The district court’s ruling that Brianna John Landrum could properly assert a blanket-type invocation of the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination to all potential questions is reversed. A witness in a civil proceeding must submit to be called and sworn and to answer all questions except incriminating ones. The proper procedure is for the court to permit the witness to be called on cross-examination and to invoke the privilege after each question is asked so that the court may rule as to whether the particular question is incriminating.

State ex rel. A.R., 2008-0261 (La. App. Ist Cir. 6/6/08), 2008 WL 2332322, *2 (unpublished).

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