Legal Opinion
In re Anonymous Attorneys
New York Court of Appeals
Decided April 5, 1977Published
1Per curiam
The sole issue before the court is whether incriminating testimony given by an attorney, following a grant of immunity, may be used as evidence against him in a disciplinary proceeding.
The appellants, attorneys admitted to practice in the State of New York, were called to testify before a Grand Jury investigating alleged irregularities in the fixing of traffic tickets in the City Court of Buffalo. The District Attorney requested that they execute waivers of immunity which they declined to do, and the Grand Jury then voted them full immunity pursuant to CPL 50.10. The Grand Jury probe resulted…
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- Shillitani v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
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