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Trammel Vs. United States

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Feb 27, 1980

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  1. United States Vs. Bryan US Supreme Court · May 08, 1950
  2. SteIn Vs. Bowman US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1839
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  3. Trammel v. United
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  4. States - 445 U.S. 40 (1980) U.S. Supreme Court Trammel v. United
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  5. States, 445 U.S. 40 (1980) Trammel v. United
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  6. contention that the admission of his wife's adverse testimony, over his objection, contravened the decision in Hawkins v. United
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  7. the marital relationship is privileged under the independent rule protecting confidential marital communications, Blau v. United
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  8. to exclude the voluntary testimony of his wife. 440 U.S. 934 (1979). This calls for a reexamination of Hawkins v. United
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  9. the admission of the adverse testimony of his wife, over his objection, contravened this Court's teaching in Hawkins v. United
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  10. It was applied by this Court in Stein v. Bowman
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  11. Pet. 209, 38 U. S. 220 -223 (1839), in Graves v. United
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  12. States, 150 U. S. 118 (1893), and again in Jin Fue Mo v. United
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  13. Indeed, it was not until 1933, in Funk v. United
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  14. Page 445 U. S. 46 In Hawkins v. United
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  15. Id. at 358 U. S. 78 . Accord, Wyatt v. United
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  16. Fed.Rule Evid. 501. Cf. Wolfle v. United
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  17. Francis v. Southern
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  18. because the laws of marriage and domestic relations are concerns traditionally reserved to the states. See Sosna v. Iowa
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  19. Elkins v. United
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  20. States, 364 U. S. 206 , 364 U. S. 234 (1960) (Frankfurter, J., dissenting). Accord, United States v. Nixon
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  21. Those confidences are privileged under the independent rule protecting confidential marital communications. Blau v. United
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  22. a grant of immunity and assurances of lenient treatment does not render her testimony involuntary. Cf. Bordenkircher v. Hayes
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  23. This Court recognized just such a confidential marital communications privilege in Wolfle v. United
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  24. States, 291 U. S. 7 (1934), and in Blau v. United
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  25. It has been expanded since then to include crimes against the spouse's property, see Herman v. United
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  26. States, 220 F.2d 219, 226 (CA4 1955), and, in recent years, crimes against children of either spouse, United States v. Allery
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  27. Hawkins v. United
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  28. See Zorach v. Clauson
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  29. U.S. Supreme Court Trammel v. United
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  30. Blau v. United
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  31. of Hawkins v. United
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  32. Graves v. United
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  33. Jin Fue Mo v. United
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  34. Funk v. United
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  35. In Hawkins v. United
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  36. Accord, Wyatt v. United
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  37. Cf. Wolfle v. United
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  38. See Sosna v. Iowa
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  39. Accord, United States v. Nixon
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  40. Cf. Bordenkircher v. Hayes
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  41. Wolfle v. United
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  42. Herman v. United
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  43. United States v. Allery
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  44. Stanton v. Stanton
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