U.S. v. WUJKOWSKI

Nos. 90-3132, 90-3135 and 90-3146.

929 F.2d 981 (1991)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Roy A. WUJKOWSKI, Defendant-Appellant (Two Cases). UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. John T. STONE, Jr., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided April 2, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Murray, argued (Carmen A. Jacobs, Jr. and Christian D. Abel, on brief), Murray & Price, Washington, D.C., for defendants-appellants.

Lowell V. Sturgill, Jr., Civ. Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., argued (Stuart M. Gerson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Anthony John Steinmeyer, Civ. Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., and Henry E. Hudson, U.S. Atty., Alexandria, Va., on brief), for plaintiff-appellee.

Before WIDENER, SPROUSE and WILKINSON, Circuit Judges.


WILKINSON, Circuit Judge:

This case presents recurrent issues in Fifth Amendment jurisprudence: which individuals or entities are eligible to invoke the privilege against self-incrimination and what types of materials are protected by the privilege. The dispute over these issues arises from a classic confrontation between the subpoena power of a government agency and the asserted Fifth Amendment rights of those individuals targeted by the subpoena. Here, the Department...

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