Adcock v. State

I respectfully dissent.

The question is whether Fourteenth Amendment due process required that a certain portion of the defendant’s testimony at the civil proceeding be excluded from the criminal trial because it was involuntary and in violation of her right against self-incrimination.

Although appellant mentions the state constitutional provision as *351well as the Fifth Amendment self-incrimination clause, her argument is based on the federal standard, as it was in the trial court. Thus the case is not analyzed on the state constitutional ground, Ga. Const. 1983, Art. I, Sec. I, Par. XVI, which…