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SIGETY v. ABRAMS

No. 1153, Docket 80-2044.

632 F.2d 969 (1980)

Charles E. SIGETY, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Robert ABRAMS, Attorney General of the State of New York, Charles Hynes, Deputy Attorney General of the State of New York (Special Prosecutor), and Edward A. Pichler, Sheriff of the City of New York, Respondents-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided September 2, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ira Lee Sorkin, New York City (Eugenie C. Gavenchak, Squadron, Ellenoff, Plesent & Lehrer, New York City, of counsel), for petitioner-appellee.

T. James Bryan, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., State of New York, New York City (Charles J. Hynes, Deputy Atty. Gen., State of New York, New York City, of counsel), for respondents-appellants.

Before OAKES and MESKILL, Circuit Judges, and BONSAL, District Judge.

MESKILL, Circuit Judge:

Charles Sigety petitioned the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Mary Johnson Lowe, Judge, for a writ of habeas corpus, contending that his incarceration under a state warrant of commitment for civil contempt violated his rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments. After determining that the contempt adjudication had been based on testimony elicited in violation of Sigety's privilege against self...

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