GOODMAN, District Judge.
At the trial of this cause, one Edwin M. Furtado was called as a witness by the United States. The Government propounded a series of questions to him, each of which he refused to answer upon the ground that his answers would be self incriminatory. The question presented is whether or not the court should approve the exercise of the privilege by the witness or order him to testify.
A consideration of the circumstances and setting, in...
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