(Download) "State V. Miyasaki" by Hawaii Supreme Court * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: State V. Miyasaki
- Author : Hawaii Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 11, 1980
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 61 KB
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This case reaches us on an interlocutory appeal from an order of the Circuit Court of the Third Circuit denying defendant-appellant's motion to dismiss an indictment charging a violation of HRS § 710-1072.5, Obstruction of Justice.*fn1 The indictment arose from his refusal to cooperate in a grand jury investigation of illicit gambling on the island of Hawaii. The issue presented is the constitutionality of a section of the state's general witness immunity statute that provides immunity in exchange for potentially incriminating information from a witness. More precisely, the question is whether a section of the foregoing statute which forbids the direct or indirect use of any evidence obtained through compulsion authorized thereunder affords immunity that is coextensive with the protection bestowed by the Constitution of the State of Hawaii.