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  2. Griffin v. California - Wikipedia

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    Griffin v. California, 380 U.S. 609 (1965), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled, by a 6–2 vote, that it is a violation of a defendant's Fifth Amendment rights for the prosecutor to comment to the jury on the defendant's declining to testify, or for the judge to instruct the jury that such silence is evidence of guilt.

  3. Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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    The grand jury indictment clause of the Fifth Amendment has not been incorporated under the Fourteenth Amendment. [8] This means the grand jury requirement applies only to felony charges in the federal court system. While many states do employ grand juries, no defendant has a Fifth Amendment right to a grand jury for criminal charges in state ...

  4. United States v. Miller (1985) - Wikipedia

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    United States v. James Miller, 471 U.S. 130 (1985) was a Supreme Court case in which the court held that the Fifth Amendment's Grand Jury Clause is not violated if a federal defendant is found guilty by a trial jury without having found "all" parts of an indictment proved.

  5. Kastigar v. United States - Wikipedia

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    "The Scope of Testimonial Immunity under the Fifth Amendment: Kastigar v. United States". Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review. 6 (2): 350– 383. Mykkeltvedt, Roald Y. (1979). "To Supplant the Fifth Amendment's Right against Compulsory Self-Incrimination: The Supreme Court and Federal Grants of Witness Immunity". Mercer Law Review. 30 (3): 633– 660.

  6. Schmerber v. California - Wikipedia

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    For example, a November 1966 article in the Harvard Law Review opined that Justice Brennan's majority opinion was "a good exposition of his view of the interrelationship between the fourth and fifth amendments," [80] and a February 1967 article in the Texas Law Review argued that Schmerber "exemplifies the proposition that the fifth amendment ...

  7. Double Jeopardy Clause - Wikipedia

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    The Fifth Amendment, like all the other guaranties in the first eight amendments, applies only to proceedings by the federal government (Barron v. City of Baltimore , 7 Pet. 243), and the double jeopardy therein forbidden is a second prosecution under authority of the federal government after a first trial for the same offense under the same ...

  8. Eastman invoked Fifth Amendment ‘where appropriate’ in ...

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    Former Trump lawyer John Eastman invoked the Fifth Amendment “where appropriate” when he sat for a deposition on Wednesday before a Fulton County, Ga., grand jury investigating former ...

  9. The U.S. Bill of Rights. Article Three, Section Two, Clause Three of the United States Constitution provides that: . Trial of all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment, shall be by Jury; and such Trial shall be held in the State where the said Crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any State, the Trial shall be at such Place or Places as the Congress may by Law have ...