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COMMONWEALTH v. COLUMBIA INV. CORP.

222 Pa.Super. 30 (1972)

Commonwealth, Appellant, v. Columbia Investment Corporation.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

June 22, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James D. Crawford, Deputy District Attorney, with him Deborah E. Glass and Milton M. Stein, Assistant District Attorneys, Richard A. Sprague, First Assistant District Attorney, and Arlen Specter, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellant.

George P. Williams, III, with him Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis, for appellees.

Before WRIGHT, P.J., WATKINS, MONTGOMERY, JACOBS, HOFFMAN, SPAULDING, and CERCONE, JJ.

OPINION BY HOFFMAN, J., June 22, 1972:

On March 30, 1969, the District Attorney of Philadelphia filed a petition requesting a grand jury investigation into a variety of areas in which municipal corruption was alleged to exist. In April of 1969 the grand jury was convened under special order of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia.

The District Attorney's petition charged that there was "widespread corruption" in a series of programs of the Philadelphia...

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