Thomas A. Woods v. Massachusetts
FifthAmendment DueProcess HabeasCorpus Jurisdiction
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 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. . +