Legal Opinion
New Jersey v. Portash
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 20, 1979No. 77-1489PublishedCited by 378 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stewart
This case involves the scope of the privilege against compulsory self-incrimination, grounded in the Fifth Amendment and made binding against the States by the Fourteenth. The precise question is whether, despite this constitutional privilege, a prosecutor may use a person’s legislatively immunized grand jury testimony to impeach his credibility as a testifying defendant in a criminal trial.
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In the early 1970’s, Joseph Portash was Mayor of Manchester Township, Executive Director of the Pinelands Environmental Council, and a member of both the Ocean County Board of Freeholders and the…
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