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MATTER OF REUTER (COSENTINO)

6 Misc.2d 411 (1957)

In the Matter of Arthur L. Reuter, as Acting Commissioner of Investigation of the State of New York, Petitioner. Sylvester Cosentino, Respondent.

Supreme Court, Special Term, New York County.

May 15, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (Philip Watson of counsel), for petitioner.

Irving Mendelson for respondent.

Edward H. Levine for Association of Lawyers of the Criminal Courts of Manhattan and Kings County Criminal Courts Bar Association, amici curiæ.

GEORGE TILZER, J.

By this proceeding the Acting Commissioner of Investigation seeks an order committing a witness, an attorney, to jail for refusing to answer seven questions put to him in a private hearing held by the Acting Commissioner, and punishing the witness for contempt. The witness-attorney refused to answer the questions, claiming that his lips were sealed by the provisions of law governing confidential communications between an attorney and...

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