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· 9/6/2023

The Estate of Josiah Wheeler v. Garrison Property and Casualty Insurance Company

Citations

  • 80 F.4th 1006

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  • holding that the Government may compel grand jury testimony from witnesses over Fifth Amendment objections if the witnesses receive \use and derivative use immunity\
  • holding that the Government may compel grand jury testimony from witnesses over Fifth Amendment objections if the witnesses receive “use and derivative use immunity”
  • recognizing that the “Fifth Amendment privilege against compulsory self-incrimination . . . can be asserted in any proceeding, civil or criminal, administrative or judicial, investigatory or adjudicatory . . .”
  • holding that if the government prosecutes a person after granting him use immunity, it must show its evidence was derived from a completely independent source
  • holding that \use\ and \derivative use\ immunity were coextensive with Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and therefore sufficed to compel testimony over assertion of the right
  • holding that \use\ and \derivative use\ immunity were coextensive with Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and therefore sufficed to compel testimony over assertion of the right

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