 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities - 1955 - 458 páginas
...could be taken as equivalent either to a confession of guilt or a •conclusive presumption of perjury. A witness may have a reasonable fear of prosecution...otherwise might be ensnared by ambiguous circumstances. Mr. DOYLE. We agree with that. That is the law. But the rank and file of the Communist Party in California... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities - 1955 - 1074 páginas
...confession of guilt or « conclusive presumption of perjury. As we pointed out in I ' llmiinn a witness cu? have a reasonable fear of prosecution and yet be innocent of any wn«nedoin? The privilege serves to protect the innocent who otherwise might be ensnarrO by nmbiguous... | |
 | United States. Commission on Government Security - 1957 - 850 páginas
...either to a confession of guilt or a conclusive presumption of perjury. As we pointed out in UUmann, a witness may have a reasonable fear of prosecution...otherwise might be ensnared by ambiguous circumstances. . . . the Board seized upon his [Slochower's] claim of privilege before the Federal committee and converted... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1957 - 314 páginas
...either to a confession of guilt or a conclusive presumption of perjury. As we pointed out in Ullmann, a witness may have a reasonable fear of prosecution...otherwise might be ensnared by ambiguous circumstances. See Griswold, The Fifth Amendment Today (1955). With this in mind, we consider the application of §... | |
 | Congress. Internal Revenue Taxation Joint Committee - 1958 - 140 páginas
...Sloohower v. Board of Higher Education. 350 US 551, when, at the same Term, this Court said at pp. 557-558: "The privilege serves to protect the innocent who...otherwise might be ensnared by ambiguous circumstances." When we pass to the issue of credibility, we deem it evident that Halperin's claim of the Fifth Amendment... | |
 | United States. Court of Claims, Audrey Bernhardt - 1960 - 1044 páginas
...a hollow mockery if its exercise could be taken as equivalent * * * to a confession of guilt * * *. The privilege serves to protect the innocent who otherwise might be ensnared by ambiguous circumstances. Congress in enacting section 2 (a) of Public Law 769 has given a meaning to the Fifth Amendment which... | |
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The privilege against self-incrimination would be reduced to a hollow mockery if its exercise could be taken as equivalent either to a confession of guilt or a conclusive presumption of perjury. 
