Can a witness object to being called material?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from United States v. Freedman, 445 F.2d 1220 (2nd Cir. 1971):
11 In United States v. Siegel, 263 F.2d 530 (2 Cir.), cert. denied, 359 U.S. 1012, 79 S.Ct. 1147, 3 L.Ed.2d 1035 (1959), this court ruled that the materiality of a matter is, in the first instance, a question for the investigating body, and that a witness cannot object to a question as immaterial unless it is clear that no answer he could give could be material.
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