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Prosecutors said they would not be able to show that the trial had not been affected by televised Congressional testimony that Mr. North had given under immunity.
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Congressional testimony is normally given under oath and with immunity.
Petty Officer Seacrest's testimony was given under a grant of immunity and so cannot be used against him at a court-martial.
He was saved from jail by an appeals-court ruling that his trial had been tainted by his own testimony, given under a grant of immunity, before a congressional committee.
But he remained hostile to the Provisional IRA, joining forces in the Lords in 1999 with an old opponent, former Unionist party leader, James (now Lord) Molyneaux (to oppose immunity given under the Good Friday agreement for IRA killers, after the graves of vanished victims of IRA violence were revealed. The one consolation which an otherwise bleak 1983 brought was the seat in the Lords.
But he remained hostile to the Provisional IRA, joining forces in the Lords in 1999 with an old opponent, the former Ulster Unionist leader James (now Lord) Molyneaux, to oppose the immunity given, under the Good Friday agreement, to IRA killers after the graves of vanished victims of IRA violence were revealed.
The convictions were vacated on appeal on the grounds that North's Fifth Amendment rights may have been violated by the indirect use of his testimony to Congress which had been given under a grant of immunity.
"It's always in regard to the investigation that a person is given this immunity..
Last month, given limited immunity, Graham met with federal investigators in Raleigh.
White fear has been given diplomatic immunity.
And they have been given absolute immunity from law suits.
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