STATE v. HASNEY

No. 74-250-C. A.

341 A.2d 729 (1975)

STATE v. Lucille HASNEY.

Supreme Court of Rhode Island.

July 28, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Julius C. Michaelson, Atty. Gen., Judith Romney Wegner, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., for plaintiff.

John F. Cicilline, Bevilacqua & Cicilline, Providence, for defendant.


OPINION

PAOLINO, Justice.

This is an appeal from a 3-month sentence for willful contempt arising out of the defendant's refusal to testify, when ordered to do so by a justice of the Superior Court. She based such refusal on the ground that her testimony might tend to incriminate her in violation of her rights under art. V of the amendments to the Constitution of the United States not to be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against herself. The...

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