Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...published separately by the Roger Baldwin Foundation. As I said, both in the Kansas article and in the letter to the CRIMSON from Mr. Sutherland and myself, there is no legal privilege to shield one's friends by silence. One who is asked to testify to matters which actually tend to show this guilt does not lose the immunity he would have available, by reason of the fact that his claim of the privilege would not only protect him, but would incidentally protect his associates as well. But no matter what a man's code of friendship...
...Darwin's view, the human molecules have one fundamental property that dominates all others: they tend to increase their numbers up to the absolute limit of their food supply. This is the familiar thesis of Thomas Malthus, a senior contemporary of Grandfather Darwin whose gloomy predictions of starvation have haunted mankind for 150 years...
...current misconceptions about the testimonial privilege to remain silent. The witness is not the ultimate judge of the tendency of an answer to incriminate him. He can be required, on pain of contempt punishment, to disclose enough to show a real possibility that an answer to the question will tend, rightly or wrongly, to convict him of a crime. Manifestly this is a delicate business. The witness must not be required to prove his guilt in demonstrating the incriminating character of the answer sought. A judge must decide when the witness has gone far enough to demonstrate his peril...
...refusal may mean only that the witness has innocently got into a situation where he is apparently though not actually guilty of a crime; but fairly or not, the fact that he feels it necessary to refuse information to a government agency on the ground that it will tend to incriminate him inevitably casts a shadow on his reputation...
...There are several misconceptions about the testimonial privilege to remain silent. The witness is not the ultimate judge of the tendency of an answer to the question will tend, rightly or wrongly, to convict him of a crime...