New Hampshire Revised Statutes 282-A:125 – Protection Against Self-Incrimination
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Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 282-A:125
- Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- person: may extend and be applied to bodies corporate and politic as well as to individuals. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:9
- state: when applied to different parts of the United States, may extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories, so called; and the words "United States" shall include said district and territories. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:4
- Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
- Testify: Answer questions in court.
- Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
No person shall be excused from attending and testifying or from producing books, papers, correspondence, memoranda, and other records before the commissioner of the department of employment security, the chairman of an appeal tribunal, or any duly authorized representative of either of them, or a court of this state, or in obedience to the subpoena of any of them in any cause or proceeding before the commissioner, or an appeal tribunal, on the ground that the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, required of him may tend to incriminate him or subject him to a penalty or forfeiture; but no individual shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter, or thing concerning which he is compelled, after having claimed his privilege against self-incrimination, to testify or produce evidence, documentary or otherwise; except that such individual so testifying shall not be exempt from prosecution and punishment for perjury committed in so testifying.