“Immunity.” A person who has been a witness in a legal proceeding, and who cannot, except as otherwise provided in this subdivision, be convicted of any offense or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction matter or thing concerning which he gave evidence therein, possesses “immunity” from any such conviction, penalty or forfeiture. A person who possesses such immunity may nevertheless be convicted of perjury as a result of false testimony in such legal proceeding, and may be convicted of or adjudged in contempt as result of having contumaciously refused to give evidence therein. (Penal Law 50.10[1])
The law of criminal procedure is bound to weigh the intended investigation of the truth against the
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