People v. Williams
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Hopkins, J. P.
Criminal Term has dismissed the indictment which charged the defendant with manslaughter in the second degree. The dismissal was predicated on the immunity enjoyed by the defendant as the result of his previous testimony before the Grand Jury (see CPL 50.10, subd 3; 190. 40). The issue before us is whether the defendant’s testimony has the quality of conferring transactional immunity, thus rendering the prosecution impotent from later charging the defendant with the commission of a crime to which the defendant’s testimony directly related.
*419We conclude that as…
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