STATE OF NEW JERSEY, RESPONDENT,
v.
LOUIS DeCOLA, JOSEPH A. DIANA AND LAWRENCE HURLEY, DEFENDANTS. IN THE MATTER OF THE CRIMINAL CONTEMPT OF CHARLOTTE HANSEN, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT.
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First Appeal Argued June 4, 1959.
First Appeal Reargued and Second Appeal Argued September 13, 1960.
Decided October 24, 1960.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Mr. James F. McGovern, Jr., argued the cause for appellant (Mr. James F. Norton, on the brief).
Mr. Michael G. Comunale, Assistant Prosecutor of Hudson County, argued the cause for respondent (Mr. Lawrence A. Whipple, Hudson County Prosecutor, attorney; Mr. Edward F. Hamill, of counsel, on the brief).
Mr. William A. O'Brien, Assistant Prosecutor of Hudson County, argued the cause for respondent (Mr. Lawrence A. Whipple, Hudson County Prosecutor, attorney; Mr. Ralph P. Messano, First Assistant Prosecutor, of counsel, on the brief).
Mr. Burrell Ives Humphreys, Deputy Attorney General, argued the cause for respondent (Mr. David D. Furman, Attorney General, attorney; Mr. Charles S. Joelson, Deputy Attorney General, of counsel; Mr. Burrell Ives Humphreys, Deputy Attorney General, on the brief).
The Supreme Court of New Jersey.
The opinion of the court was delivered by WEINTRAUB, C.J.
Charlotte Hansen appeals from convictions for criminal contempt arising out of refusals to testify.
Mrs. Hansen appeared before a grand jury investigating a homicide. Three men were indicted for murder, in part upon her testimony. Later, a New York daily carried a story of her purported recantation. She was thereupon summoned by a subsequent grand jury before...
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