New Jersey v. Portash

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1979-03-20

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Mr. Justice Stewart delivered the opinion of the Court. This case involves the scope of the privilege against compulsory self-incrimination, grounded in the Fifth Amendment and made binding against the States by the Fourteenth. The precise question is whether, despite this constitutional privilege, a prosecutor may use a person’s legislatively immunized grand jury testimony to impeach his credibility as a testi…

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