Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Dormady
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided July 15, 1996PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLiacos, C.J.
On May 10, 1994, the defendant, Michael L. Dormady, was indicted by a grand jury for larceny by false pretenses. The incident giving rise to the indictment occurred while Dormady was a Duxbury police officer and resulted in *191his dismissal from that police department. Dormady moved to dismiss the indictment on the basis that during a prior internal police investigation of the transaction and a subsequent civil service adjudicatory hearing, Dormady had been compelled to answer questions regarding the incident, and did so after being promised transactional immunity under art. 12 of the…
2Cases cited30 opinions
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- Kastigar v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Garrity v. New JerseySupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Counselman v. HitchcockSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
- Gardner v. BroderickSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
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