People v. Breslin

In view of the constitutional provision that no person “ shall * * * be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself ” (N. Y. Const., art. I, § 6), defendant Breslin was free to refuse to answer questions put to him when he appeared before the grand jury, on the ground that his answers might tend to incriminate him, unless, in return for the *297required testimony, he was granted an “ immunity * * * so broad that the risk of prosecution [was] ended altogether (Matter of Doyle, 257 N. Y. 244, 250-251.) Such was the situation here; the provisions of the applicable statutes, prior…