IN MATTER OF PROCEEDINGS, SPECIAL GRAND JURY

No. 89-P-642.

27 Mass. App. Ct. 693 (1989)

542 N.E.2d 316

IN THE MATTER OF PROCEEDINGS BEFORE A SPECIAL GRAND JURY.

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Norfolk.

August 17, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John P. Kivlan, Special Assistant Attorney General, for the Commonwealth.

Present: DREBEN, KASS, & SMITH, JJ.


SMITH, J.

This appeal is from a Superior Court judgment holding a grand jury witness (witness) in contempt for refusing to answer questions put to him before a special grand jury in Norfolk County. The judgment stated that the witness was to be committed to the house of correction "until he decides to comply with the [c]ourt [o]rder, up to the time that the term of the [s]pecial [g]rand jury expires." A single justice of this court stayed the judgment of contempt...

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