Doolittle v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a witness is not ''compelled” to testify unless \the free will of the witness [is] overborne.\
• holding that grand jury witnesses have no due process right to be informed that they are a target of the grand jury investigation
• stating that “[t]he constitutional guarantee is only that the witness be not compelled to give self-incriminating testimony”
• explaining that the test to determine whether the Fifth Amendment is invoked to protect a defendant from self-incrimination is determining whether the statement was made in a setting where “the free will of the witness was overborne.”
• rejecting contention that failure to advise grand jury witness that he might be indicted as result of investigation was violation of Fifth Amendment
• stating when a respondent was explicitly advised of the right to remain silent, \This advice also eliminated any possible compulsion to self- incrimination which might otherwise exist.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).