IN RE GRAND JURY PROCEEDINGS

No. 85-1116.

760 F.2d 26 (1985)

In re GRAND JURY PROCEEDINGS. Appeal of Barry P. WILSON.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided April 24, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carol A. Donovan, Boston, Mass., with whom Norman S. Zalkind and Zalkind & Sheketoff, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for appellant.

James E. O'Neil, Asst. U.S. Atty., Providence, R.I., with whom Lincoln C. Almond, U.S. Atty., and James H. Leavey, Asst. U.S. Atty., Providence, R.I., were on brief, for U.S.

Before CAMPBELL, Chief Judge, BOWNES and TORRUELLA, Circuit Judges.


LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Chief Judge.

In granting the government's motion to compel attorney Barry P. Wilson to answer questions before a grand jury, the district court, in a careful opinion, ruled that all but one of the questions that Wilson declined to answer fell outside the scope of the attorney-client privilege. On appeal, Wilson does not urge that the district court erred in its application of the law of privilege as it is presently understood. Rather,

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