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People v. Tyler

Citations

  • 46 N.Y.2d 251
  • 385 N.E.2d 1224
  • 413 N.Y.S.2d 295
  • 1978 N.Y. LEXIS 2416

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  • under New York law, where perjury indictment based on questions irrelevant to underlying investigation, sole purpose of questioning was to extract perjured testimony
  • under New York law, where perjury indictment based on questions irrelevant to underlying investigation, sole purpose of questioning was to extract perjured testimony
  • perjury trap found where “only rational explanation for the tactics employed is the unacceptable one: that a perjury indictment, rather than the ascertainment of facts leading to substantive goals, was the object”

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Judges: Breitel

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