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IN THE MATTER OF PROCEEDINGS TO COMPEL ATTENDANCE OF GROTHE

Gen. No. 50,441.

59 Ill. App.2d 1 (1965)

208 N.E.2d 581

In the Matter of the Proceedings to Compel the Attendance of George Grothe, Respondent-Appellant, as a Witness in a Criminal Proceeding in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District, Fourth Division.

April 9, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rogers, Paul & Hansen, and Schiff, Hardin, Waite, Dorschel & Britton, all of Chicago (W. Donald McSweeney, of counsel), for appellant.

Daniel P. Ward, State's Attorney of Cook County, of Chicago (Elmer C. Kissane, Clyde O. Bowles, Jr., Stuart P. Shapiro and William J. Nellis, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for appellee.

MR. JUSTICE ENGLISH delivered the opinion of the court.

There is involved here an appeal in a proceeding to secure the attendance of an Illinois witness to testify before a grand jury in Massachusetts. This extraordinary action, unknown to common law, was brought under a "Uniform Act" which has been adopted in many states over the past thirty years but enacted by the Illinois legislature only in 1959, and this is the first case in which the statute has been construed...

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