Garrity v. New Jersey

SCOTUSCase
Litigants=Garrity v. New Jersey
ArgueDate=November 10
ArgueYear=1966
DecideDate=January 16
DecideYear=1967
FullName=Garrity v. New Jersey
USVol=385
USPage=493
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Holding=Where police officers being investigated were given choice either to incriminate themselves or to forfeit their jobs under New Jersey statute on ground of self-incrimination, and officers chose to make confessions, confessions were not voluntary but were coerced, and Fourteenth Amendment prohibited their use in subsequent criminal prosecution in state court.
SCOTUS=1965-1967
Majority=Douglas
JoinMajority=Warren, Black, Brennan, Fortas
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Dissent=Harlan, Clark, Stewart
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LawsApplied=U.S. Const. Amend. V., U.S. Const. Amend. XIV

"Garrity v. New Jersey", 385 U.S. 493 (1967), [ [http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=CASE&court=US&vol=385&page=493 385 U.S. 493] Full text of the opinion courtesy of Findlaw.com.] was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that law enforcement officers and other public employees have the right to be free from compulsory self-incrimination.

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*List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 385