People v. Jones

OPINION OF THE COURT

Martin Marcus, J.

The question arose in the trial of this matter whether a witness who had previously pleaded guilty to the commission of a *650crime, admitted his guilt in his plea allocution, been sentenced and waived his right to appeal, could nonetheless refuse to testify at the trial of another person charged with the same crime because the testimony he intended to give would contradict his plea allocution and subject him to a charge that the testimony was perjurious. For the reasons set forth more fully below, I determined that the witness could not refuse to testify on…