Commonwealth v. Koonce

How courts have described this case

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• hearing held to determine whether witness’s “earlier testimony was voluntary, and thus constituted a waiver of his privilege against self-incrimination”
• new trial not warranted based on judge's \single slip of the tongue\ that was \isolated and discrete\
• witness who had minimal education, was ignorant of his Fifth Amendment rights, and had testified at prior trial because of fear that refusal to testify would result in criminal charges, did not give incriminating testimony voluntarily; privilege properly invoked at retrial

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