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LUCAS v. TURNER

No. 82-2793.

725 F.2d 1095 (1984)

Emma LUCAS, Administratrix of the Estate of George Lucas, (Deceased), et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Edwin F. TURNER, et al., Defendants. Appeal of Richard M. DALEY, State's Attorney of Cook County, Illinois, Non-Party Deponent-Witness, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 13, 1984.

As Amended January 18, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David S. Allen, Asst. State's Atty., Chicago, Ill., for defendants.

Jeffrey H. Hass, People Law Office, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before ESCHBACH and COFFEY, Circuit Judges, and CELEBREZZE, Senior Circuit Judge.

COFFEY, Circuit Judge.

The State's Attorney of Cook County, Illinois, appeals from an order directing him to release all transcripts and materials of a state grand jury investigation into the death of George Lucas, to the plaintiffs-appellees' attorneys for use in a civil rights action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. We reverse.

I.

George Lucas, a 23-year-old black man, died on February 9, 1973 while a pre-trial detainee in the Cook County Jail...

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