United States of America and Carl Rosen, Revenue Agent of the Internal Revenue Service v. Alvin I. Malnik

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• stating that to sustain Fifth Amendment objection in absence of specific questions is unacceptable
• trial judge “must inquire whether there are questions which can be answered without forcing the witness to invoke the privilege”
• a subject of a subpoena should appear before the interrogating officer and under oath specifically claim his constitutional rights as to particular questions while answering others not presenting a threat of self-incrimination
• “A ‘blanket’ refusal to answer all questions is unacceptable.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).