immunity statute
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From 382 U.S. 70 - Albertson v. Subversive Activities Control Board · 1966Most cited · 768 citing opinions
no (immunity) statute which leaves the party or witness subject to prosecution after he answers the criminating question put to him, can have the effect of supplanting the privilege * * *, and that such a statute is valid only if it supplies 'a complete protection from all the perils against which the constitutional prohibition was designed to guard * * *' by affording 'absolute immunity against future prosecution for the offence to which the question relates.