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IN RE GRAND JURY PROCEEDINGS

No. 76-2355 Summary Calendar.

534 F.2d 41 (1976)

In re GRAND JURY PROCEEDINGS. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jerry Roscoe THURMOND, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 10, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert B. Thompson, Gainesville, Ga., for defendant-appellant.

Ronald T. Knight, U. S. Atty., Edgar W. Ennis, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Macon, Ga., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before GODBOLD, DYER and RONEY, Circuit Judges.

GODBOLD, Circuit Judge:

This appeal requires us to decide whether the running of a federal prisoner's criminal sentence may be interrupted pending his confinement on an intervening civil contempt sentence for refusing to testify before a grand jury regarding offenses for which he has been convicted. Jerry Roscoe Thurmond was serving a three-year sentence in a federal prison in Alabama when he appeared before the federal grand jury for the Middle District of Georgia...

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