United States v. Keenan Quinn

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• holding that immunity is a - 24 - No. 79364-1-1/25 creature of the legislature, “the body that defines criminal offenses and their sanctions”
• explaining that “defendant must show” five elements, including that testimony is “clearly exculpatory”
• explaining that the United States Supreme Court has limited the trial court’s ability to prevent a defendant’s testimony in a pretrial hearing from being used against him at his later trial to cases where “the defense witness faced a conflict between two [of his own] constitutional rights”
• “[T]he remedy for [the Government’s] due process violation, rather than intruding into the prosecutor’s province by judicial grants of immunity, is a retrial where the Government can cure the distortion caused by its wrongdoing or face dismissal of the relevant charges.”
• “[T]he remedy for [the Government’s] due process violation, rather than intruding into the prosecutor’s province by judicial grants of immunity, is a retrial where the Government can cure the distortion caused by its wrongdoing or face dismissal of the relevant charges.”

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