Gelinas v. Barrett
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Levine, J.
Petitioner was charged in a single-count indictment with selling six grams of cocaine to a State Police undercover officer for $600 on September 23, 1987. He brought the instant application for a writ of prohibition on the ground that prosecution for this offense was barred because he had automatically received transactional immunity (see, CPL 50.10, 190.40) by being compelled to testify as a witness before a Grand Jury on October 13, 1987 in connection with that body’s investigation of a homicide which had occurred the prior June. Attached to petitioner’s…
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