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What can the government do to compel a witness to testify after she or he has asserted the right against self-incrimination?
Grant immunity
In what ways are a witness's rights in a congressional investigation similar to and different from a witness's rights in a court?
You see, congessional committees have the power to subpoena witnesses. A subpoena is a legal order that a person appear or produce requested documents. Not only so, but they can even legally testify you under oath. Witnesses who do not tell the truth can be ciminally prosecuted of perjury. Committees may punish those who refuse to testify or otherwise will not cooperate by holding them in contempt of Congress, meaning possibility of being arrested and/or jailed. Congressional committees have granted immunity to witnesses. Immunity is freedom from prosecution for witnesses whose testimony ties them to illegal acts. Of course, the Fifth Amendment states that people cannot be forced to testify against themselves. Witnesses who are granted immunity, however, can be required to testify about illegal actiities in which athey are involved. Those who refuse may be held in contempt and jailed.
How is someone granted blanket immunity?
Blanket or total immunity completely protects the witness against any future prosecution for crimes that are related to his or her testimony. However, subsequent information, independent of the witness testimony, about the crime can lead to the witness being tried for the crime. Blanket immunity is commonly given in federal cases.
In what ways are a witness's rights in a congressional investigation similar to and different from a witnesses rights in court?
You see, congessional committees have the power to subpoena witnesses. A subpoena is a legal order that a person appear or produce requested documents. Not only so, but they can even legally testify you under oath. Witnesses who do not tell the truth can be ciminally prosecuted of perjury. Committees may punish those who refuse to testify or otherwise will not cooperate by holding them in contempt of Congress, meaning possibility of being arrested and/or jailed. Congressional committees have granted immunity to witnesses. Immunity is freedom from prosecution for witnesses whose testimony ties them to illegal acts. Of course, the Fifth Amendment states that people cannot be forced to testify against themselves. Witnesses who are granted immunity, however, can be required to testify about illegal actiities in which athey are involved. Those who refuse may be held in contempt and jailed.
What does it mean to have someone testify for or against you?
If you testify against, you argue against them.. If you testify for then, you agree with them and support them
A character witness or other person called on to testify who is not considered an expert is called a?
A lay witness is a character witness or other person who is called on to testify and is not considered an expert.
Are the words testify and testicle from the same origin?
Testify and testicle both come from the Latin "testis" meaning "witness." Testicles are witness to a man's virility.
How can someone testify if they are not a witness?
They can't. Only subpoeana'd witnesses may testify at a trial or hearing.
Testify is this a latin root word?
Yes, "testify" is derived from the Latin word "testificare," which means "to bear witness."
Why does a defendant not have to testify?
WHAT court case does he not want to testify in - his own? He has that right if he wishes to exercise it. If you are referring to some other case in which he may not want to testify - the court has the power to compel his attendance and be called as a witness. If he takes the stand and refuses to answer questions or testify, the jury can then draw their own conclusion from his refusal, and use that, or not, in their deliberations.
Can you ask for expenses incurred for you to testify?
If you are issued a subpoena or material witness warrant to testify upon matters of fact, then you cannot get your expenses back. If you are providing expert witness testimony then you are not compelled to testify and may charge expenses and a fee.
Use testify in a sentence?
The attorney was asked to testify as a character witness for a forty year old man on remand.
