Court Opinion

ID: 9633256
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 11:40:24.223511+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:08:31.863928
License: Public Domain

Rosellini, J.
(concurring) — I concur with the majority that individuals subpoenaed before a grand jury to obtain evidence of bribery or corrupt solicitation, or practice of *118solicitation, are immune from prosecution. This holding is compelled not only by the federal case law and our statutes, RCW 9.18.080 and RCW 10.52.090, as set forth in the majority opinion, but also by the provisions in Const. art. 2, § 30:
Any person may be compelled to testify in any lawful investigation or judicial proceeding against any person who may be charged with having committed the offense of bribery or corrupt solicitation, or practice of solicitation, and shall not be permitted to withhold his testimony on the ground that it may criminate himself or subject him to public infamy, but such testimony shall not afterwards be used against him in any judicial proceeding — except for perjury in giving such testimony
Wright, J., concurs with Rosellini, J.