466 So. 2d 210 - State v. Fowler’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “As the district court below correctly noted, this case is controlled by our decision in The Florida Bar v. Doe, 384 So.2d 30 (Fla.1980), which held that a grant of immunity prohibits the use of those immunized statements in subsequent prosecution under section 837.021. We also addressed in that opinion the second part of the certified question, relating to prosecution under section 837.-02, perjury in official proceedings. We held that prosecution was possible but that the immunized statements could not be used as evidence in such prosecution. We see no basis for receding from Doe .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 480 So. 2d 659 - Baker v. State