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PEOPLE v. LUCERO

No. 27576.

584 P.2d 1208 (1978)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Arnaldo LUCERO, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

September 18, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Russel, Dist. Atty., David H. Zook, Deputy Dist. Atty., Colorado Springs, John R. Rodman, Sp. Deputy Dist. Atty., Denver, for plaintiff-appellee.

Vincent Franco, Denver, for defendant-appellant.

HODGES, Justice.

Appellant Lucero appeals a judgment ordering his summary incarceration for contempt of court. Despite receiving a grant of transactional immunity, Lucero refused on Fifth Amendment grounds to obey the district court's orders to testify before a grand jury. The court thereupon ordered him incarcerated for contempt of court. We affirm the district court's judgment.

In 1977, a statutory grand jury was convened in El Paso County for the January...

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