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IN THE MATTER OF PRESSMAN

421 Mass. 514 (1995)

IN THE MATTER OF JOEL M. PRESSMAN.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

December 12, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harvey A. Silverglate (Philip G. Cormier with him) for the defendant.

Arnold R. Rosenfeld, Bar Counsel.

Rosanna Cavallaro & John Reinstein, for American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., WILKINS, ABRAMS, O'CONNOR, & GREANEY, JJ.

WILKINS, J.

This bar discipline proceeding presents the question whether this court may discipline a lawyer based solely on testimony that the lawyer gave pursuant to an immunity order issued by a Federal judge.

In 1993, Joel M. Pressman, an attorney and former mayor of Chelsea, testified before a Federal grand jury and later in a Federal criminal trial pursuant to an order issued by a Federal District Court judge. That order provided that "[n]o testimony...

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