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· 7/26/1978

United States v. Milan Yurasovich

Citations

  • 580 F.2d 1212
  • 1978 U.S. App. LEXIS 9945

How courts have described this case

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  • noting \the maxim that the Fifth Amendment does not protect perjury\
  • doubts as to efficacy of invocation of Fifth Amendment to be resolved in favor of witness
  • privilege extends “to answers that would in themselves support a conviction but likewise embraces those which would furnish a link in the chain of evidence needed to prosecute the claimant.”
  • “ ‘[i]t is well settled by the overwhelming weight of authority that a person who has waived his privilege of silence in one trial or proceeding is not estopped to assert [the privilege] as to the same matter in a subsequent trial or proceeding’ ”

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Judges: Adams, Weis, Garth

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