Is a witness entitled to refuse to incriminate themselves?
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The following excerpt is from Gollaher v. United States, 419 F.2d 520 (9th Cir. 1969):
The right of witnesses to refuse to incriminate themselves is a personal
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right. Bowman v. United States, 350 F.2d 913 at 915 (9th Cir., 1965). They can waive that right and their failure to assert that right is nothing about which appellants are entitled to complain.[419 F.2d 526]
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