No. 24-6390
William Logsdon v. United States
Tags: compulsory-process criminal-defendant fifth-amendment self-incrimination sixth-amendment witness-testimony
Latest Conference:
2025-02-21
Question Presented (from Petition)
When a criminal defendant seeks testimony from a witness who asserts the Fifth Amendment privilege as to all questions, must the district court make a particularized inquiry into the scope of that privilege before accepting it and, even if accepted, allow the witness to be called to invoke the privilege before the jury or otherwise inform the jury about the invocation?
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether a district court must conduct a particularized inquiry into a witness's Fifth Amendment privilege before accepting a blanket assertion of self-incrimination and preventing the defendant from presenting the witness's testimony to the jury
Docket Entries
2025-02-24
Petition DENIED.
2025-02-06
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/21/2025.
2025-01-30
Waiver of United States of right to respond submitted.
2025-01-30
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2025-01-21
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due February 24, 2025)
Attorneys
United States
Sarah M. Harris — Acting Solicitor General, Respondent
William Logsdon
Kristin Michelle Kimmelman — Federal Public Defender's Office, Petitioner