Legal Opinion

In Re Neff

Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

Decided July 30, 1953No. 10947_1PublishedCited by 66 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MARIS, Circuit Judge.

The issue presented by this appeal is whether a witness under subpoena during a criminal trial may be compelled over her objection based on the constitutional privilege against self-incrimination to answer certain questions which she had answered a year earlier before the grand jury which indicted the defendant on trial.

The defendant, Sylvia Neff, on October 21, 1952, in response to a subpoena issued by the Government, appeared as a witness in the District Court for the District of New Jersey at the trial of the case of United States v. Anthony Valenti, also known as…

2Cases cited32 opinions

  1. Hoffman v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1951
  2. Ex Parte BainSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
  3. Blau v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1950
  4. Arndstein v. McCarthySupreme Court of the United States · 1920
  5. Temple v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1881

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3Cited by66 opinions

  1. Emspak v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1955
  2. United States v. Emanuel JohnsonCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1973
  3. Commonwealth v. RodgersSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1977
  4. James H. Ellis, Jr. v. United States of America, Alfred M. Watkins v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1969
  5. Steven G. Slutzker in No. 03-4219 v. Philip Johnson Gerald J. Pappert Stephen A. Zappala, Jr., District Attorney, Allegheny County, Pa, in No. 03-4046Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2004

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