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PEOPLE EX REL. HANRAHAN v. POWER

No. 45409.

54 Ill.2d 154 (1973)

295 N.E.2d 472

THE PEOPLE ex rel. EDWARD V. HANRAHAN, State's Attorney, Petitioner, v. JOSEPH A. POWER, Circuit Judge, et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed April 2, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

EDWARD V. HANRAHAN, State's Attorney, of Chicago (WILLIAM HEDRICK and DOUGLAS MOMEYER, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for petitioner.

WILLIAM R. MING, JR., ALDUS S. MITCHELL and SOPHIA H. HALL, all of Chicago, for respondents.

Writ awarded.

MR. JUSTICE DAVIS delivered the opinion of the court:

The issue in this case is whether a grand jury witness may interpose either his fifth-amendment privilege against self-incrimination, or its Illinois counterpart, section 10 of article I of the Illinois constitution, against an order compelling him to produce handwriting exemplars, and whether the fourth amendment, in its application to the States through the due-process clause of the fourteenth...

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