IN RE LIDDY

No. 73-1562.

506 F.2d 1293 (1974)

In re Grand Jury Proceedings, George Gordon LIDDY, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided October 10, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter L. Maroulis, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., for appellants. Thomas A. Kennelly, Washington, D. C., also entered an appearance for appellant.

Sidney M. Glazer, Asst. Sp. Prosecutor for appellee. Leon Jaworski, Sp. Prosecutor, Philip A. Lacovara, Counsel for the Sp. Prosecutor, Richard D. Weinberg, and Robert L. Palmer, Asst. Counsel to the Sp. Prosecutor, were on the brief for appellee. Archibald Cox, Sp. Prosecutor at the time the brief was filed, was on the brief for appellee.

Before BAZELON, Chief Judge, and WRIGHT, McGOWAN, LEVENTHAL, ROBINSON, MacKINNON and WILKEY, Circuit Judges, sitting en banc.


WILKEY, Circuit Judge:

Appellant George Gordon Liddy seeks reversal of an order of civil contempt which the District Court entered against him on 3 April 1973.1 The contempt order issued when Liddy persisted in asserting his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination in response to questioning before the 5 June 1972 Watergate grand jury, despite a District Court order granting him conpulsory immunity pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §...

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