PEOPLE EX REL. MacFARLANE v. SARI

No. 27809.

585 P.2d 591 (1978)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado ex rel. J. D. MacFARLANE, Attorney General of the State of Colorado, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Vince SARI, as witness in the matter of investigation of Courtesy Ford, Respondent-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

August 28, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. D. MacFarlane, Atty. Gen., David W. Robbins, Deputy Atty. Gen., Edward G. Donovan, Sol. Gen., Sandra B. McCray, Susan L. C. Foreman, Asst. Attys. Gen., Denver, for petitioner-appellant.

Gary J. Ceriani, Denver, for respondent-appellee.


ERICKSON, Justice.

The Attorney General has appealed from the ruling of the district court that the grant of immunity from prosecution embodied in section 6-1-111(1), C.R.S. 1973,1 is not sufficiently broad to permit the prosecution to compel respondent Sari to testify, over Sari's invocation of his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination.2 We affirm.

Sari has refused to answer questions...

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