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PACKEL v. TAKIFF

457 Pa. 14 (1974)

Packel v. Takiff.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

July 1, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter M. Phillips, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, and Israel Packel, Attorney General, for petitioner.

F. Emmett Fitzpatrick and Henry W. Sawyer, III, with them Drinker, Biddle & Reath, for Harry A. Takiff, J.

Before JONES, C.J., EAGEN, O'BRIEN, ROBERTS, POMEROY, NIX and MANDERINO, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE EAGEN, July 1, 1974:

On January 31, 1974, the Honorable Harry A. Takiff, a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia, on his own motion, charged the regularly summoned grand jury for the January, 1974 session of the Court of Common Pleas, Criminal Trial Division, of Philadelphia, to investigate official corruption in the City of Philadelphia, specifically within the city government, as well as state and local enforcement agencies. Subsequently...

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