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IN THE MATTER OF ROCHE

381 Mass. 624 (1980)

411 N.E.2d 466

IN THE MATTER OF WALTER F. ROCHE, JR.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

October 15, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew H. Feinberg (Mary C. Leonard with him) for Walter F. Roche, Jr.

J. Albert Johnson (Thomas J. May with him) for Elwood S. McKenney.

Donald K. Stern, Assistant Attorney General, for the Commission on Judicial Conduct.

Jerome P. Facher, Special Counsel to the Commission on Judicial Conduct, pro se (James L. Quarles, III, with him).

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., QUIRICO, WILKINS, LIACOS, & ABRAMS, JJ.

ABRAMS, J.

A single justice of the Supreme Judicial Court adjudicated Walter F. Roche, Jr., in civil contempt for refusing to comply with an order that Roche testify fully at a deposition. On appeal,1 Roche contends that his status as a reporter for a television station frees him from the discovery obligations applicable to other persons by entitling him to assert, in his discretion, a right to refuse to disclose the identities of his...

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