Garrity v. New Jersey
| Garrity v. New Jersey | |
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| Argued November 10, 1966 Decided January 16, 1967 | |
| Full case name | Edward J. Garrity et al. v. State of New Jersey |
| Citations | 385 U.S. 493 (more) 87 S. Ct. 616; 17 L. Ed. 2d 562 |
| Case history | |
| Prior | State v. Naglee, 44 N.J. 209, 207 A.2d 689 (1965); State v. Holroyd, 44 N.J. 259, 208 A.2d 146 (1965). |
| Holding | |
| Where police officers being investigated were given choice either to incriminate themselves or to forfeit their jobs under New Jersey statute on ground of self-incrimination, and officers chose to make confessions, confessions were not voluntary but were coerced, and Fourteenth Amendment prohibited their use in subsequent criminal prosecution in state court. | |
| Court membership | |
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| Case opinions | |
| Majority | Douglas, joined by Warren, Black, Brennan, Fortas |
| Dissent | Harlan, joined by Clark, Stewart |
| Dissent | White |
| Laws applied | |
| U.S. Const. amends. V., XIV | |
Garrity v. New Jersey, 385 U.S. 493 (1967), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that law enforcement officers and other public employees have the right to be free from compulsory self-incrimination. It gave birth to the Garrity warning, which is administered by investigators to suspects in internal and administrative investigations in a similar manner as the Miranda warning is administered to suspects in criminal investigations.