Word: waiver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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David B. Cole '56, secretary of the Young Conservative League, has withdrawn his protest, made last Friday to Doan Watson, against a "waiver of rules" allowing the Green Feather group to distribute buttons in the Union and in some Houses...
Griswold attacked the legal doctrine known as "waiver of the privilege," whereby a witness sacrifices his right to protection under the Amendment by answering certain questions...
Discussinlg the doctrine of waiver of privilege, Griswold pointed out that it was unfortunate in such cases because "witnesses who have legitimate fears of prosecution, but who might be willing to cooperate as far as they could, are induced (if not actually compelled) to refuse to answer any questions...
...This doctrine of waiver is, I believe, the true explanation of the refusal of some witnesses to answer such questions as Have you over taught Communist doctrine in your classroom? ... These refusals have been deeply disturbing to the public." Although the witness might never have indoctrinated students, he would be afraid to answer the question, since this would constitute a waiver of the privilege...
...chain which would tend to incrimination--is available to the innocent as well as the guilty. Under the existing state of the law, the privilege may be asserted in regard to a question the answer to which may be in the negative where it would constitute a waiver of the Fifth Amendment privilege in regard to other questions at the same hearing...