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FIELDS v. SOLOFF

No. 507, Docket 90-7240.

920 F.2d 1114 (1990)

Ronald Paul FIELDS, Individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Brenda SOLOFF, Robert M. Morgenthau, Sterling Johnson, Jr., Lewis Halpern, Robert Siberling, J.D., 1 & 2 Wardens, Hon. Robert Abrams, and The New York State Office of Court Administration, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided December 11, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald Paul Fields, New York City, pro se.

Thomas P. Litsky, Asst. Dist. Atty., New York County, New York City (Robert M. Morgenthau, Dist. Atty., New York County, Marc Frazier Scholl, Asst. Dist. Atty., New York City, of counsel), for defendants-appellees Morgenthau, Johnson, Halpern and Siberling.

Frederic L. Lieberman, Asst. Atty. Gen. of State of N.Y., New York City (Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen. of State of N.Y., New York City, of counsel), for defendant-appellee Soloff.

Before KAUFMAN, KEARSE and McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judges.

IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge:

The purpose and powers of grand juries have been subject to debate for many years. Over three hundred years ago, John Somers, later Lord Chancellor of England, explained the role of the grand jury:

[T]he truth of such inquisitions should be put in the hands of Persons of understanding, and integrity, indifferent and impartial, that might suffer no man to be falsely accused, or defamed, nor the lives of any to be put in jeopardy...

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