Does the use of coerced statements constitute a violation of the Fifth Amendment?

MultiRegion, United States of America

The following excerpt is from Deshawn E. by Charlotte E. v. Safir, 156 F.3d 340 (2nd Cir. 1998):

Plaintiffs claim that the use requirement we established in Weaver has been satisfied here because the defendants have announced their intention to use the statements taken by the Squad at hearings in family court delinquency proceedings. However, such an intention is insufficient to trigger a Fifth Amendment violation. The planned future use of an allegedly coerced statement is simply too remote and attenuated to form the basis of a present constitutional claim. Cf. Hale v. Henkel, 201 U.S. 43, 68-69, 26 S.Ct. 370, 50 L.Ed. 652 (1906) ("the possibility that information given by the witness [pursuant to a grant of immunity under a state statute] might be used" by the Federal government is, as a matter of law, "a danger so unsubstantial and remote" that it fails to trigger the right to invoke the privilege).

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