Legal Opinion

State v. Collymore

Connecticut Appellate Court

Decided October 11, 2016No. AC37703PublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtGruendel, J.

It is well established that the state may immunize from prosecution a witness called in its case-in-chief. See generally General Statutes § 54-47a. The primary question in this appeal is whether the state, after immunizing such a witness for testimony given during the state's case-in-chief, may decline to extend that immunity to the same witness in connection with his testimony during the defense case-in-chief. Here, we conclude that the state was not required to grant three prosecution witnesses additional immunity for their testimony during the defense case-in-chief, and that the court's…

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