Ohio v. Reiner

How courts have described this case

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• 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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