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prevents the prosecution only from using the witness's own testimony or any evidence derived from the testimony against the witness. However, if the prosecutor acquires evidence substantiating the crime independently of the witness's testimony, the witness may then be prosecuted.
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confronted the issue of the type of immunity, use or transactional, constitutionally required to compel testimony. The Court ruled that the grant of use and derivative use immunity is sufficient.
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In states in which defendants have a right to testify on their own behalf at a grand jury proceeding, waiver of immunity is a condition of that right.
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are entitled to receive immunity in exchange for their testimony. The grant of immunity impairs the witness's right to invoke the
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In the United States, Congress can also grant criminal immunity (at the Federal level) to witnesses in exchange for testifying.
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Prosecutors at the state level may offer a witness either transactional or use and derivative use immunity, but at the
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U.S. Department of Justice, Justice Manual, "Title 9, Criminal". Accessed 10/22/2020
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protection against self-incrimination as a legal basis for refusing to testify.
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by requiring transactional immunity to be accorded to compelled witnesses.
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deal primarily with the United States and do not represent a
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United States Fifth Amendment self-incrimination case law
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