UNITED STATES EX REL. WOMACK v. UNITED STATES ATTORNEY FOR NORTHERN DIST. OF ILL.

No. 72 C 1949.

348 F.Supp. 1331 (1972)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. John Alexander WOMACK and James Andrew Robinson, Petitioners, v. The UNITED STATES ATTORNEY FOR the NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS, and The United States Marshal For the Northern District of Illinois, Respondents.

United States District Court, N. D. Illinois, E. D.

September 27, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward J. Calihan, Jr., Chicago, Ill., for petitioners.

James Thompson, U. S. Atty., James C. Murray, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Chicago, Ill., for respondents.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS

EDWIN A. ROBSON, Chief Judge.

Relators, Womack and Robinson, were granted "transactional immunity" and ordered to testify before a grand jury of this district, which was investigating interstate gambling activity. They refused to do so, were adjudged in civil contempt, and were committed to custody on May 25, 1971. Their appeal was dismissed as frivolous by the Court of Appeals, In re Womack, Order...

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