Is a witness's testimony duplicative equivalent to that of a grand jury testimony?
"New York", United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Rowland, 157 Misc.2d 114, 595 N.Y.S.2d 881 (N.Y. City Ct. 1992):
It was subsequently held in People v. Payne, 52 N.Y.2d 743, 436 N.Y.S.2d 271, 417 N.E.2d 564 (1980) that a witness's testimony was the duplicative equivalent of the witness's testimony before a grand jury.
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