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- Title: United States v. Winter
- Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- Release Date : January 02, 1965
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 63 KB
Description
Hyman Winter appeals from a judgment of conviction entered upon the verdict of a jury which found him guilty of perjuring himself while testifying under oath before a Federal grand jury. He was sentenced to ninety days imprisonment and placed on probation for a period of twenty-one months. He seeks reversal of the conviction and dismissal of the indictment on the grounds that: (1) his testimony before the grand jury, having been compelled under a subpoena when he was a subject of inquiry, was obtained in violation of his constitutional rights to counsel and against self-incrimination; (2) even if the Governments conduct in summoning him before the grand jury did not invade his constitutional rights, it was so unfair as to warrant invocation of this Courts supervisory power over the administration of criminal justice; and (3) the question which he was convicted of answering falsely was not material to the grand jury inquiry and hence furnished no basis for a perjury prosecution.