Section 4.21 Immunity

• Library: Criminal Practice 2012 Supp

VI. (§4.21) Immunity

In 1997, the Missouri General Assembly passed an immunity statute, § 491.205, RSMo 2000, which permits a prosecuting attorney to seek a grant of immunity and a compulsion order from a circuit judge. Section 491.205.2 states that the circuit judge who hears the immunity request cannot be the same judge who supervises the grand jury that is involved or the same judge who presides over a proceeding, such as a jury trial, in which the grant of immunity is applicable. This statute also states that, in considering the...