Under pressure from his parents, Boy X revealed Sean Mercer had given him the gun to hide and told him: “Don’t say anything to anyone!” He told officers how he was phoned by Mercer 20 minutes after the shooting and was asked to pick him up at the home of another teen accomplice, Boy M, in a taxi.

Sean Mercer

Liverpool

The Strand Gang, aka the Nogga Dogs, were involved in a tit-for-tat turf war with The Crocky Crew. The Strand Gang hailed from the Norris Green district of Liverpool. During the trial over Rhys’s killing it emerged there had been 17 shootings involving the two gangs between 2004 and 2008.

Rhys Jones’ parents are still together. The couple met in 1982 while working at Tesco and have been married for 33 years. The couple, who are also parents to son Owen, fiercely supported each other during the court case – which saw 18-year-old Sean Mercer charged with murder. …

Sean Mercer, now 29, was sentenced to life with a minimum of 22 years after shooting dead 11-year-old Rhys.

Tensions grew the day Rhys was shot after Wayne was spotted on Croxteth Crew territory. He was in the area with two others because he allegedly wanted to borrow a bicycle from a friend.

Janette Mercer The mother of Sean Mercer was sentenced to three years in jail in 2009 for perverting the course of justice. She was locked up after she admitted lying to detectives investigating the murder.

Section 71 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 means offenders can be given immunity from prosecution if they give evidence to help police secure a conviction. According to the act, a “specified prosecutor” must think the action is appropriate for the purpose of the investigation.

Immunity from Prosecution (Section 71) Under section 71 SOCPA a prosecutor may grant conditional immunity from prosecution to secure the assistance of an offender. This immunity must be: for the purposes of an investigation or prosecution of an indictable offence or an offence triable either way; and.

Witness immunity is the privilege enjoyed by a witness and protects them from any form of civil proceedings in respect of evidence given by them in legal proceedings. In addition, the immunity covers things said or done in the course of preparing evidence for such proceedings.

Immunity from prosecution is a doctrine of international law that allows an accused to avoid prosecution for criminal offences. Immunities are of two types. The first is functional immunity, or immunity ratione materiae. This is an immunity granted to people who perform certain functions of state.

Immunity is a tool often used by prosecutors to compel an individual to testify or to provide a statement that may be incriminating to assist the government in prosecuting another, perhaps more culpable person.

Prosecutors offer immunity when a witness can help them or law enforcement make a case. Once they grant it, certain rules come into play. Immunity from prosecution is an important tool for prosecutors. They can offer immunity to witnesses for all types of crimes, even serious ones like kidnapping and murder.

A state supreme court recently held that attorneys can assert immunity as a defense to claims such as fraud and conversion if the conduct in question is in furtherance of client representation. ABA Section of Litigation leaders see a trend in multiple states upholding the doctrine of attorney immunity.

Legal immunity, or immunity from prosecution, is a legal status wherein an individual or entity cannot be held liable for a violation of the law, in order to facilitate societal aims that outweigh the value of imposing liability in such cases.

The doctrine of qualified immunity protects state and local officials, including law enforcement officers, from individual liability unless the official violated a clearly established constitutional right.

In U.S. criminal law, a proffer letter, proffer agreement, proffer, or “Queen for a Day” letter is a written agreement between a prosecutor and a defendant or prospective witness that allows the defendant or witness to give the prosecutor information about an alleged crime, while limiting the prosecutor’s ability to …

If you’re involved in a federal investigation and you have information that the government wants or the government would find useful, one thing that may happen is there’ll being immunity negotiations. You may be able to get some kind of immunity for sharing the information you’ve got.

Prosecutors at the state level may offer a witness either transactional or use and derivative use immunity, but at the federal level, use and derivative use immunity is much more common. In the United States, Congress can also grant criminal immunity (at the Federal level) to witnesses in exchange for testifying.