The following excerpt is from In re Candor Diamond Corp., 42 BR 916 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. 1984):
A witness who voluntarily testifies on her own behalf waives the right to invoke the Fifth Amendment privilege as to matters raised by her own testimony. In choosing to testify, a witness must weigh the advantage of raising the privilege against the advantage of putting forward his version of the facts. Brown v. United States, 356 U.S. 148, 155-56, 78 S.Ct. 622, 627-28, 2 L.Ed.2d 589 (1956).
Once a witness has freely testified to incriminating facts, he cannot refuse to testify as to the details, because "disclosure of a fact waives the privilege as to details." Rogers v. United States, 340 U.S. 367, 373, 71 S.Ct. 438, 442, 95 L.Ed. 344, reh. denied, 341 U.S. 912, 71 S.Ct. 619, 95 L.Ed. 1348 (1951).
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