Ullmann v. United States
| Ullmann v. United States | |||||||
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| Argued December 6, 1955 Decided March 26, 1956 | |||||||
| Full case name | Ullmann v. United States | ||||||
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76 S. Ct. 497; 100 L. Ed. 511; 1956 U.S. LEXIS 1631; 53 A.L.R.2d 1008 | ||||||
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| Majority | Frankfurter, joined by Warren, Reed, Burton, Clark, Minton, Harlan | ||||||
| Concurrence | Reed | ||||||
| Dissent | Douglas, joined by Black | ||||||
Ullmann v. United States, 350 U.S. 422 (1956), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that a person given immunity from prosecution loses their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, thus upholding the Constitutionality of the Immunity Act of 1954.
The Court stated, "This command of the Fifth Amendment ('nor shall any person . . . be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself. . . .') registers an important advance in the development of our liberty -- 'one of the great landmarks in man's struggle to make himself civilized.'"
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