Is use immunity sufficient to overcome a Fifth Amendment claim of privilege?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Profit, F061998 (Cal. App. 2012):
not afford protection against prosecution, but merely prevents a prosecutor from using the immunized testimony against the witness. Use immunity provides sufficient protection to overcome a Fifth Amendment claim of privilege." (People v. Cooke (1993) 16 Cal.App.4th 1361, 1366.)
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