UNITED STATES v. DOWNEY

Crim. No. 5923.

195 F.Supp. 581 (1961)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. William W. DOWNEY, Defendant, and William L. Guild, as Attorney General of Illinois, and J. Waldo Ackerman, as State's Attorney of Sangamon County, Illinois, Intervening Petitioners.

United States District Court S. D. Illinois, S. D.

April 14, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harlington Wood, Jr., U. S. Atty., Springfield, Ill., for plaintiff.

James B. Martin, Springfield, Ill., for defendant.


POOS, District Judge.

William L. Guild, as Attorney General of Illinois, and J. Waldo Ackerman as State's Attorney of Sangamon County, Illinois, intervened here and filed a motion for disclosure of Grand Jury proceedings, and in the motion asked for a disclosure pursuant to Rule 6(e) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, 18 U.S.C.A., and in support of the motion, alleged:

(1) That the disclosure is requested for the use in the performance of their duties...

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