United States v. Janice Fortin and Richard Fortin

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• concluding in dicta that if a party’s “prior inconsistent sworn statements [are] already sufficiently incriminating as to the crime of perjury,” then the party’s “right to not further discuss the matter” under the Fifth Amendment is waived
• upholding a witness’s invocation of the privilege against self-incrimination unless it is “‘perfectly clear’ from a careful consideration of all the circumstances that their testimony could not ‘possibly’ have had a tendency to incriminate” (emphasis added
• guilty plea to counterfeiting charges does not waive right against self-incrimination with respect to potential perjury prosecution

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).