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MATTER OF GOLD v. MENNA

25 N.Y.2d 475 (1969)

In the Matter of Eugene Gold, District Attorney of the County of Kings, Respondent, v. Steve Menna, Appellant. In the Matter of Eugene Gold, District Attorney of the County of Kings, Respondent, v. Joseph Chilli, Rocco Matra and George Chilli, Also Known as Gerard Chilli, Appellants. In the Matter of Eugene Gold, District Attorney of the County of Kings, Respondent, v. Natale Evola, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided December 4, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Malvine Nathanson and Milton Adler for Steve Menna, appellant.

Joseph Aronstein for Joseph Chilli, Rocco Matra and George Chilli, also known as Gerard Chilli, appellants.

John Nicholas Iannuzzi for Natale Evola, appellant.

Eugene Gold, District Attorney (Irving P. Seidman and Mark Gruberg of counsel), for respondent.

Chief Judge FULD and Judges BURKE, SCILEPPI, BERGAN, BREITEL and GIBSON concur.

JASEN, J.

The primary issue in this case is whether a witness gains an immunity from prosecution for murder — even though such crime is not one of the offenses specified in the statute for which immunity may be conferred — where the Grand Jury is carrying on an investigation related to conspiracy to commit murder and other crimes.

The Fourth Additional Kings County Grand Jury of May, 1968...

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