· 11/22/1937
Ex parte Scrum
Citations
- 302 U.S. 653
- 58 S. Ct. 267
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- use immunity may be sufficient if the compulsion to testify is from the court, not from a statute; in the unusual case that conviction is impossible without derivative use of the compelled testimony, it is defendant’s burden to show the derivative use
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