MERRITT v. PEOPLE

No. 91SC597.

842 P.2d 162 (1992)

Leonard Roy MERRITT, Petitioner, v. The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

Rehearing Denied January 11, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David F. Vela, Colorado State Public Defender, David M. Furman, Deputy State Public Defender, Denver, for petitioner.

Gale A. Norton, Atty. Gen., Raymond T. Slaughter, Chief Deputy Atty. Gen., Timothy M. Tymkovich, Sol. Gen., John Daniel Dailey, Deputy Atty. Gen., Robert Mark Russel, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Cheryl A. Linden, Asst. Atty. Gen., David Lugert, Asst. Atty. Gen., Denver, for respondent.


Justice MULLARKEY delivered the Opinion of the Court.

We granted certiorari to determine whether, under the Confrontation Clause of the United States Constitution, the district court correctly refused to allow cross-examination of the prosecution's two essential witnesses concerning the fact that the court, at the prosecutor's request, had granted immunity to the witnesses requiring them to testify after each had asserted his Fifth Amendment right to refuse to testify...

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