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Supreme Court· 3/19/2001

Ohio v. Reiner

Citations

  • 532 U.S. 17
  • 121 S. Ct. 1252
  • 149 L. Ed. 2d 158
  • 2001 U.S. LEXIS 2454
  • 2001 WL 262448

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • explaining that it was reasonable for witness to fear that answers might incriminate her when defense’s theory was that witness was responsible for victim’s death
  • reversing the Supreme Court of Ohio’s holding that a witness’s assertion of innocence deprived her of her Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination
  • noting that “[t]he potential for self-incrimination must be a ‘real danger’”
  • witness could assert Fifth Amendment privilege despite claim of innocence because she had reasonable cause to apprehend danger from her answers
  • describing the Supreme Court's pre-2000 Fifth Amendment precedent
  • \danger of 'imaginary and unsubstantial character' will not suffice\

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Judges: Per Curiam

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Cites

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