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Voice Identification, Writing Exemplars And The Privilege Against Self-Incrimination, Russell J. Weintraub
Voice Identification, Writing Exemplars And The Privilege Against Self-Incrimination, Russell J. Weintraub
Vanderbilt Law Review
The problems involved in defining the nature of the privilege against self-incrimination and in setting its limits have been much mooted in recent years. Though these problems have been brought into sharp focus by the present very urgent and certainly justified concern for our national security, they are problems which are inherent in the privilege itself. They have been with us for a long time.
One of these problems concerns the extent to which a person may refuse to participate in criminal proceedings brought against him. Doubtless not even the most liberal proponent of the privilege would claim that an …