Gardner v. Broderick

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• holding that firing a police officer for refusing to waive his Fifth Amendment privilege violated the right against self-incrimination
• holding that it was improper to discharge the police officer for refusing to waive constitutional right against self-incrimination
• holding that a state may not terminate a police officer for exercising his right not to incriminate himself when testifying before a grand jury
• holding that a police officer could not be discharged solely for his refusal to forfeit the rights guaranteed him by the Fifth Amendment
• indicating that the state may compel job-related testimony from an police officer, provided that the state does not make direct or derivative use of the officer’s statement against the officer in any criminal proceeding
• invalidating state law which required the discharge of any police officer who refused, on Fifth Amendment grounds, to give grand jury testimony concerning police corruption

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