United States v. Murdock
Is it still good law? What later courts have actually done to this case.
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Murdock's separate rulings on invoking the privilege and on criminal pleading were not displaced by Murphy. The confirmed treatment is listed below. All 20 flagged citations have been read.
20 later cases cite United States v. Murdock; 20 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.
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Treatments
Overruled in part
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The Supreme Court rejected Murdock's rule that possible state prosecution could not support a Fifth Amendment privilege claim in a federal inquiry.
Murphy v. Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor · Supreme Court of the United States · filed
We reject — as unsupported by history or policy — the deviation from that construction only recently adopted by this Court in United States v. Murdock, supra, and Feldman v. United States, supra. We hold that the constitutional privilege *78against self-incrimination protects a state witness against incrimination under federal as well as state law and a federal witness against incrimination under state as well as federal law.
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