Department of Human Services v. K. L. R.

How courts have described this case

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• choosing to analyze privilege only under the Fifth Amendment where the appellant did not “develop[ ] a separate analysis under the Oregon Constitution”
• observing that \a properly crafted grant of immunity may ease the friction between the Fifth Amendment right of a parent or caretaker to avoid self-incrimination and the state's authority to advance the best interests of a dependent and at-risk child\
• \[R]equiring an admission of abuse as a condition of family reunification violates a parent's Fifth Amendment rights . . . .\
• \[R]equiring an admission of abuse as a condition of family reunification violates a parent's Fifth Amendment rights . . . .\
• ‘‘requiring an admission of abuse as a condition of family reunification violates a parent’s [f]ifth [a]mend- ment rights’’
• “[P]roviding use immunity from criminal prosecution is a necessary condition to compelling potentially incriminat- ing statements as an inducement for full cooperation and disclosure during dependency proceedings.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).