IN RE GRAND JURY PROCEEDINGS

No. 75-1990.

517 F.2d 666 (1975)

In re GRAND JURY PROCEEDINGS. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Knox JONES, Roberto J. Yzaguirre, Arturo Guerra, Jr., Jose Antonio Canales, G. Rudolph Garza and Ramon Garcia, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied September 29, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank Maloney, Austin, Tex., for appellants.

Theodore I. Koskoff, James Diorio, Bridgeport, Conn., John A. Burgess, Montpelier, Vt., amicus curiae, for Assoc. of Trial Lawyers of America.

Marvin O. Teague, David Bires, Houston, Tex., amicus curiae, for Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Assn.

Edward B. McDonough, Jr., U. S. Atty., Ronald Tonkin, James R. Gough, Asst. U. S. Attys., Houston, Tex., for appellee.

Before THORNBERRY, SIMPSON and RONEY, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied September 29, 1975.

THORNBERRY, Circuit Judge:

With this opinion we discharge the obligation that we undertook in our earlier per curiam Order. There we reversed the judgment of the district court whereby the relators-appellants had been sentenced to jail for civil contempt. The district judge found relators in contempt after they disobeyed his directive to answer certain questions propounded by the Assistant United...

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