Legal Opinion
Spevack v. Klein
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 23, 1967No. 62PublishedCited by 754 opinions
1Judgment of the CourtJustice Douglas
This is a proceeding to discipline petitioner, a member of the New York Bar, for professional misconduct. Of the various charges made, only one survived, viz., the refusal of petitioner to honor a subpoena duces tecum served on him in that he refused to produce the demanded financial records and refused to testify at the gidicial inquiry. Petitioner’s sole defense was that the roduction of the records and his testimony would tend *513to incriminate him. The Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court ordered petitioner disbarred, holding that the constitutional privilege against…
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