Legal Opinion
Griego v. Superior Court
California Court of Appeal
Decided May 1, 2000No. B138334PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
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PERREN, J.
The state initiates civil proceedings to declare a person a sexually violent predator (SVP). In exchange for his deposition testimony on certain matters, he receives transactional immunity for those matters and “any of the matters that he may testify to.” Here we conclude that he may not be prosecuted for a crime relating to his deposition testimony.
Facts
The People initiated proceedings to declare petitioner Leonard Griego an SVP. (Welf. & Inst. Code, § 6600 et seq.) While the petition was pending, the People noticed his deposition.
Griego, claiming the shield of the Fifth…
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