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Trammel v. United States 445 U.S. 40 (1980) is a United States Supreme Court case involving the spousal privilege and its application in the law of evidence. In it the Court held that the witness-spouse alone has a privilege to refuse to testify adversely; the witness may be neither compelled to testify nor foreclosed from testifying.In it the court upheld the conviction of the Petitioner.