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'Unfair' Immunity Rules Undermine Defense

The Connecticut Law Tribune

February 22, 2013

I will never understand why the government gets the right to grant immunity to the witnesses of its choice, but then cannot be compelled to grant immunity to the defense's witness when those witnesses get cold feet and decide to assert their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.

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