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IN RE INVESTIGATION BEFORE FEB., 1977, LYNCHBURG

No. 77-1497.

563 F.2d 652 (1977)

In re INVESTIGATION BEFORE the FEBRUARY, 1977, LYNCHBURG GRAND JURY. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Thomas James BARKER, Betty Scearce Childress, Phyllis June Nunley, Tencha Williamson, Herbert Owen Boyd, Harold Wayne Dowdy, Aubrey Henderson, Wayne Holley, Charles James Royster, Jo Ann Meadows, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided October 6, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Epstein, Washington, D.C. (Berry, Epstein & Sandstrom, Sol Z. Rosen, Washington, D.C., on brief), for appellants.

Paul R. Thomson, Jr., U.S. Atty., Roanoke, Va. (E. Montgomery Tucker and Robert B. Amidon, Asst. U.S. Attys., Roanoke, Va., on brief), for appellee.

Before RUSSELL, Circuit Judge, FIELD, Senior Circuit Judge, and WIDENER, Circuit Judge.

WIDENER, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal by ten witnesses from the district court's order disqualifying Sol Z. Rosen, Esquire, and Joseph M. Whitehead, Esquire, from representing them in a grand jury investigation concerning interstate prostitution, where each witness invoked the Fifth Amendment and where the government pointed to three witnesses and Mr. Whitehead as targets of the investigation.

In February 1977, a special grand jury for the United States...

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