New Jersey v. Portash, No. 77-1489 (U.S. Supreme Court) (440 U.S. 450; 99 S.Ct. 1292) (March 20, 1979) (Justice Stewart)
The issue addessed by the Court in this case was whether a prosecutor may use a person's legislatively immunized grand jury testimony to impeach his credibility as a testifying defendant in a criminal trial. The Court held that, under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, "a defendant's compelled statements . . ...
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