Ex parte Watters’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““In February 2015,'... ■ Watters was charged with assault in the second degree. On June 7, 2015, Watters moved that [the trial court] hold á pretrial evi-dentiary hearing on the issue of her immunity from prosecution and that [it] dismiss the charges against her. On June 9, 2015, [the trial court] denied in part and granted in part Watters’s motion. [The trial court’s] order stated: ‘[Watters’s] motion to dismiss and request for evidentiary hearing ... is hereby granted in part. In that the motion to dismiss is denied, the request for an evidentiary hearing is granted and the evidentiary hearing is set on July 14, 2015, at 9:00 a.m.’ On July 14, 2015, [the trial court] issued another order stating that the motion would be heard at trial.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ex parte Watters