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Georgia's Witness Immunity Statute: Explication And Recommendations For Judicial Development, Roald Mykkeltvedt
Georgia's Witness Immunity Statute: Explication And Recommendations For Judicial Development, Roald Mykkeltvedt
Mercer Law Review
In 1975 the Georgia General Assembly enacted a comprehensive witness immunity statute' providing for a procedure to obtain the testimony of persons who refuse to testify on self-incrimination grounds. That procedure is summarized in the following excerpt from the act:
Whenever in the judgment of the Attorney General or any district attorney, the testimony of any person or the production of evidence of any kind by any person in any criminal proceeding before a court or grand jury is necessary to the public interest, then the Attorney General or the district attorney may request the superior court, in writing, to …