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prosecution judicial impropriety, from my understanding, can't offer someone immunity to testify in a civil case then couple years later have a different prosecutor prosecute them in a criminal case...

glad the PA SC have the cojones to clear up the idiocy
 

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Being a former resident of NY close to the PA border, I often wondered about PA's legal practices...especially down in Bucks County with all the corrupt police.
 

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prosecution judicial impropriety, from my understanding, can't offer someone immunity to testify in a civil case then couple years later have a different prosecutor prosecute them in a criminal case...

glad the PA SC have the cojones to clear up the idiocy
nope. when the prosecutor offers immunity in exchange for something that's a deal between the state and the defendant or witness, not involving the prosecutor personally, because he is the manifestation of the state in that situation. The state is really just a legal fiction after all, incorporeal on its own, it acts through its "minions".
 

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nope. when the prosecutor offers immunity in exchange for something that's a deal between the state and the defendant or witness, not involving the prosecutor personally, because he is the manifestation of the state in that situation. The state is really just a legal fiction after all, incorporeal on its own, it acts through its "minions".
Over 30 years ago my first E-mail address and still is legalfiction@........

"FICTION OF LAW". The assumption that a certain thing is true, and which gives to a person or thing, a quality which is not natural to it, and establishes, consequently, a certain disposition, which, without the fiction, would be repugnant to reason and to truth. It is an order of things which does not exist, but which the law prescribe; or authorizes it differs from presumption, because it establishes as true, something which is false; whereas presumption supplies the proof of something true.
 
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