Michigan Supreme Court· 9/22/1970

People v. Joseph

Citations

179 N.W.2d 383
384 Mich. 24
1970 Mich. LEXIS 101

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holding that the privilege against self-incrimination extends not only to answers that would in themselves support a conviction, but also to answers that would furnish a link in the chain of evidence needed to prosecute the defendant
holding that the privilege against self-incrimination extends not only to answers that would in themselves support a conviction, but also to answers that would furnish a link in the chain of evidence needed to prosecute the defendant
holding that the privilege against self-incrimination extends not only to answers that would in themselves support a conviction, but also to answers that would furnish a link in the chain of evidence needed to prosecute the defendant
observing that the privilege against self- incrimination does not “sanction every chimerical danger viewed by defendant as a link in the chain of evidence”
indicating that some of the one-man grand-jury’s questions that the witness refused to answer were not incriminatory and subjected the witness to exercise of the court’s power to punish contemptuous conduct

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Judges: Brennan, Kelly, Adams, Kavanagh, Kavanagi-I, Dethmers, Black

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