Legal Opinion
Trammel v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 27, 1980No. 78-5705PublishedCited by 1,118 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Burger
We granted certiorari to consider whether an accused may invoke the privilege against adverse spousal testimony so as *42to exclude the voluntary testimony of his wife. 440 U. S. 934 (1979). This calls for a re-examination of Hawkins v. United States, 358 U. S. 74 (1958).
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On March 10, 1976, petitioner Otis Trammel was indicted with two others, Edwin Lee Roberts and Joseph Freeman, for importing heroin into the United States from Thailand and the Philippine Islands and for conspiracy to import heroin in violation of 21 U. S. C. §§ 952 (a), 962 (a), and 963. The indictment also named six…
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