IN RE OCTOBER 1985 GRAND JURY

No. 65221.

124 Ill.2d 466 (1988)

530 N.E.2d 453

In re OCTOBER 1985 GRAND JURY No. 746 (Bernard Drebin, Appellant).

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed October 20, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carlo E. Poli, Allen C. Engerman, Barry A. Erlich and Jeffery A. Brown, of Engerman, Brown & Poli, Ltd., of Chicago, for appellant.

Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General, of Springfield (Shawn W. Denney, Solicitor General, and Terence M. Madsen and Joan G. Fickinger, Assistant Attorneys General, all of Chicago, of counsel), for the People.

Kimball R. Anderson and Jennifer G. Brown, of Winston & Strawn, of Chicago, for amicus curiae Illinois CPA Society.


Writ awarded.

JUSTICE WARD delivered the opinion of the court:

Bernard Drebin, a certified public accountant (CPA), appeals the appellate court's decision ordering his compliance with a subpoena duces tecum served upon him in the course of a Cook County grand jury investigation of his tax clients, Jack and Wanda Bernstein. The Attorney General in October 1985 commenced a grand jury investigation of the Bernsteins for alleged underpayment of retailers...

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