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· 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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