Supreme Court· 1/29/1968

Marchetti v. United States

Citations

390 U.S. 39
88 S. Ct. 697
19 L. Ed. 2d 889
1968 U.S. LEXIS 3130
43 Ohio Op. 2d 215
1 C.B. 500
21 A.F.T.R.2d (RIA) 539

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holding that self-incrimination privilege applies only when individual is “confronted by substantial and real, and not merely trifling or imaginary, hazards of incrimination”
holding that the privilege applies only in the face of “substantial and real, and not merely trifling or imaginary, hazards of incrimination”
concluding that natural-person taxpayer's invocation of the Fifth Amendment privilege barred prosecution under federal wagering tax statutes requiring taxpayers, inter alia , to register with the IRS their compliance with said statutes
holding that only “substantial and real” hazards of incrimination implicate the Fifth Amendment
concluding statutory registration requirements \may not be employed to punish criminally those persons who have defended a failure to comply with their requirements with a proper assertion of the privilege against self-incrimination\
noting that courts should not insert words into statutes that their drafters omitted

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Judges: Harlan, Marshall, Brennan, Stewart, Warren

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