When a witness before a congressional committee asserts his fifth amendment privilege against self-incrimination, the committee may obtain a court order which compels him to testify and grants him immunity against the use of his testimony and information derived from that testimony in a subsequent criminal prosecution. He may still be prosecuted on the basis of other evidence.
Jay R. Shampansky, Legislative Attorney, American Law Division
CRS 86-1026 A
"December 10, 1986."
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