No. 18-6552

Thomas A. Woods v. Massachusetts

Lower Court: Massachusetts
Docketed: 2018-11-02
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: compelled-testimony constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury self-incrimination self-incrimination-protection
Key Terms:
FifthAmendment DueProcess HabeasCorpus Jurisdiction
Latest Conference: 2018-12-07
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Do the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit the government from introducing evidence of a defendant's grand jury testimony which was taken when the defendant was a target or was likely to become a target of the grand jury investigation into the offense for which the defendant is on trial, the grand jury testimony was compelled by means of a government-issued summons, and the person was not advised of the right to refuse to answer any question at the grand jury if a truthful answer would tend to be self-incriminating

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED Do the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit the government from introducing evidence of a defendant’s grand jury testimony which was taken when the defendant was a target or was likely to become a target of the grand jury investigation into the offense for which the defendant is on trial, the grand jury testimony was compelled by means of a government-issued summons, and the person was not advised of the right to refuse to answer any question at the grand jury if a truthful answer would tend to be self-incriminating. . +

Docket Entries

2018-12-10
Petition DENIED.
2018-11-21
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/7/2018.
2018-11-15
Waiver of right of respondent Commonwealth of Masschusetts to respond filed.
2018-10-30
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due December 3, 2018)

Attorneys

Commonwealth of Masschusetts
Susanne G. ReardonMassachusetts Attorney General's Office, Respondent
Thomas Woods
Myles D. JacobsonLaw Office of Myles Jacobson, Petitioner