IN RE HUNTER

No. 81-1954.

673 F.2d 211 (1982)

In re the Grand Jury of the Honorable Elmo B. HUNTER, United States District Judge. Appeal of Nick CIVELLA, Carl Civella, Anthony Civella, and Joseph Agosto.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided March 1, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Oscar B. Goodman, Las Vegas, Nev., for appellant Nick Civella.

Byron Neal Fox, Kansas City, Mo., for appellants Nick Civella, Carl Civella, and Anthony Civella.

Stanley I. Greenberg, Los Angeles, Cal., for appellant Joseph V. Agosto.

Robert G. Ulrich, U. S. Atty., W. D. Missouri, Sheryle L. Jeans, Atty., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Kansas City, Mo., for appellee.

Before HEANEY and ARNOLD, Circuit Judges, and OVERTON, District Judge.


PER CURIAM.

Appellants moved the District Court1 to "disassemble" a sitting grand jury on the ground that certain news stories demonstrated that the government had committed a breach of the secrecy of the grand jury in violation of Fed.R.Crim.P. 6(e). The District Court found that the offending television broadcast turned out to be mere speculation about what the grand jury might do, and that the newspaper articles complained of, when...

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