Court Opinion

ID: 9754979
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-28 20:20:03.159717+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:56:01.434814
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Mr. Justice BRENNAN,
concurring in the judgment, wrote:
Although the Fifth Amendment guaranteed respondent the right to refuse to answer the potentially incriminating questions put to him before the grand jury, in answering falsely he took “a course that the Fifth Amendment gave him no privilege to take.” United States v. Knox, 396 U.S. 77, 82, 90 S.Ct. 363, 24 L.Ed.2d 275 (1969). “Our legal system provides methods for challenging the Government’s right to ask questions — lying is not one of them.” Bryson v. United States, 396 U.S. 64, 72, 90 S.Ct. 355, 24 L.Ed.2d 264 (1969) (footnote omitted).
425 U.S. at 584-85, 96 S.Ct. at 1780.