PETITION OF THE DIST. ATTORNEY FOR THE PLYMOUTH DIST.


391 Mass. 723 (1984)

464 N.E.2d 62

PETITION OF THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY FOR THE PLYMOUTH DISTRICT.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

April 23, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert S. Sinsheimer, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Willie J. Davis for the defendant.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, LIACOS, ABRAMS, & LYNCH, JJ.


LIACOS, J.

Seeking to compel testimony from a witness who claimed his Fifth Amendment privilege before a grand jury, the district attorney for the Plymouth District filed an application for a grant of immunity with a single justice of the Supreme Judicial Court for Suffolk County. See art. 12 of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights; U.S. Const. amend. V; G.L.c. 233, § 20E.1 The single justice heard argument from counsel

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