People v. Stevenson

Opinion by

Judge CONNELLY.

Defendant, Stanley Leonard Stevenson, was convicted by a jury and sentenced to twenty-four years in the Department of Corrections for first degree burglary and aggravated robbery. The most significant appellate issue stems from the People's decision to grant defendant use-and-derivative-use immunity to compel his testimony at a code-fendant's trial. By granting defendant such immunity before his own prosecution, the People undertook a heavy burden of proving affirmatively that the trial evidence derived from sources wholly independent of the immunized testimony. The…