MATTER OF BOIKESS v. ASPLAND


24 N.Y.2d 136 (1969)

In the Matter of Robert Boikess et al., Appellants, v. George Aspland, as District Attorney of Suffolk County, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided February 27, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeremiah S. Gutman and Nancy Stearns for appellants.

George J. Aspland, District Attorney (John Copertino of counsel), for respondent pro se.

Judges BERGAN, KEATING and BREITEL concur with Judge BURKE; Chief Judge FULD concurs in a separate opinion; Judges SCILEPPI and JASEN concur in result only.


BURKE, J.

Appellants are faculty members of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, in Suffolk County. They have been subpœnaed and requested to appear before the 1968 Suffolk County Grand Jury, which was impaneled solely for the purpose of investigating possible drug abuses on the university campus. The District Attorney, acknowledging that appellants are targets of that inquiry, caused the subp...

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