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APPLICATION OF BIESTER

487 Pa. 438 (1979)

409 A.2d 848

In re Application of Edward G. BIESTER, Jr., Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Requesting that an Order Directing that a Multi-County Investigating Grand Jury, Having Statewide Jurisdiction, be Summoned. William C. COSTOPOULOS, Petitioner, v. Richard L. THORNBURGH, Governor for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Robert E. Casey, Treasurer of Pennsylvania, and Edward G. Biester, Jr., Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

December 26, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James J. West, Henry G. Barr, Asst. Attys. Gen., Dauphin County.

William C. Costopoulos, Lemoyne, for petitioner in No. 98 and for intervenor in No. 91.

Richard L. Thornburgh, Governor of Pennsylvania, Robert E. Casey, Treasurer of Pennsylvania, for respondents in No. 98.

Edward G. Biester, Jr., Atty. Gen., for petitioner in No. 91 and respondents in No. 98.

James J. West, Harrisburg, Stephen Goldblatt, Philadelphia, Robert Eberhardt, Pittsburgh, for amicus curiae.

Before EAGEN, C.J., and O'BRIEN, ROBERTS, NIX, MANDERINO, LARSEN and FLAHERTY, JJ.

OPINION OF THE COURT

EAGEN, Chief Justice.

Pursuant to the Investigating Grand Jury Act, Act of November 22, 1978, P.L. 1148 No. 271, §§ 1 et seq., 19 P.S. §§ 265 et seq. [Hereinafter: 19 P.S. § 265], the Attorney General of the Commonwealth, Edward G. Biester, Jr., filed with the Prothonotary of this Court at 91 E.D.Misc.Dkt. 1979 an "application requesting an order directing that a multi-county investigating grand...

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