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EDWARDS v. UNITED STATES

No. 377.

312 U.S. 473 (1941)

EDWARDS v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 3, 1941.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. J. Forrest McCutcheon for petitioner.

Mr. Richard H. Demuth, with whom Solicitor General Biddle and Messrs. Wendell Berge and M. Joseph Matan were on the brief, for the United States.

MR. JUSTICE REED delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case is here upon affirmance by the Circuit Court of Appeals of a sentence imposed after a plea of nolo contendere.1 We granted certiorari because there were involved certain important questions of criminal procedure, especially with respect to a plea in bar filed by petitioner. That plea claimed immunity from prosecution because of prior incriminating testimony given under...

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