Felix Frankfurter

“ Moreover, a state immunity statute-like any other state statute-must be applied uniformly unless there is some reasonable ground for classification; otherwise, the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is violated. [3] After a city employee suffers the primary sanction of the constitutional and charter sections-namely, loss of his position-it may well be that the waiver cannot to used to send him to the penitentiary for bribery when the same sanction would not be imposed on other witnesses giving like testimony. ”

“ Adamson v. People of State of California, 332 U.S. 46, 67 S.Ct. 1672, 91 L.Ed. 1903 (state law permitting prosecutor and trial judge to comment on the accused's failure to take the stand) ; Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 291 U.S. 97, 105, 54 S.Ct. 330, 332, 78 L.Ed. 674 (denial of permission to the accused to accompany jury on visit to scene of crime) ; Palko v. State of Connecticut, 302 U.S. 319, 325 326, 58 S.Ct. 149, 151-152, 82 L.Ed. 288 (state statute allowing appeal by State in criminal cases) .↑ Cf. Terral v. ”