Opinion | Carol C. Lam: Trump Organization subpoenas look increasingly likely. But summoning witnesses isn't always simple. - NBCNewsTHINK
that the prosecution bears the “heavy burden” to affirmatively “prove that the evidence it proposes to use is derived from a legitimate source wholly independent of the compelled testimony.”that conferred immunity on witnesses in the Iran-Contra hearings, “[A]ny grant of use and derivative use immunity would create serious — and perhaps insurmountable — barriers to the prosecution of the immunized witness.
Finally, even if Congressional investigators and prosecutors agree that giving immunity to individuals such as Rhona Graff and Allen Weisselberg might be worthwhile, there’s no guarantee that their testimony will be truthful or helpful. That’s why immunity should not be conferred unless Congress has some idea what that testimony will be.
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