The U.S. Supreme Court last week dealt with a familiar constitutional issue: the Fifth Amendment. Before the court was the case of New York City Attorney Max Halperin, convicted in 1955 of tax-fixing conspiracy* and attempting to corrupt witnesses before a grand jury. Before his indictment Halperin had declined, under the Fifth, to testify against himself before a grand jury. Because the trial judge permitted this use of the Fifth to be cited against him at his trial, the Supreme Court, on a relatively clear point of law, ordered a new trial....
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