In Re Special Grand Jury Investigating Medicaid Fraud & Nursing Homes

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas.

The defendants herein, in separate actions before the trial court, were found guilty of contempt after refusing to answer questions in direct contravention of a court order granting defendants use and derivative use immunity and ordering them to testify before the grand jury.

Defendant Oswalt advances the following assignment of error:

“The trial court was without authority to grant anything other than ‘transactional’ immunity to this witness, and the efforts to do something else are without legal effect; a witness…