Commonwealth v. Sueiras’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “Nonetheless, a witness may not rely on a bald assertion of his privilege if the circumstances do not clearly indicate a possibility of self-incrimination.... A witness must show a real risk that his answers to questions will tend to indicate his involvement in illegal activity, and not a mere imaginary, remote or speculative possibility of prosecution.... A witness also is not entitled to make a blanket assertion of the privilege. The privilege must be asserted with respect to particular questions, and the possible incriminatory potential of each proposed question, or area which the prosecution might wish to explore, must be considered.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 92 Mass. App. Ct. 607 - Hasouris v. Sorour