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IN RE CONNICK

No. 96-30708.

124 F.3d 718 (1997)

In re Assassination Records Review Board Subpoena to Harry F. CONNICK. Harry F. CONNICK, Assassination Records Review Board Subpoena, Petitioner-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, on Behalf of the ASSASSINATION RECORDS REVIEW BOARD, Movant-Appellee. In re Assassination Records Review Board Subpoena to Harry F. CONNICK. UNITED STATES of America, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Harry F. CONNICK, District Attorney of the Parish of Orleans, Respondent-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

October 10, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Francis Wessel, Charlotte Ann Lagarde, Victoria Lennox Bartels, Wessel and Associates, New Orleans, LA, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Arthur R. Goldberg, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, DC, Eddie J. Jordan, Jr., New Orleans, LA, T. Jeremy Gunn, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Movant-Appellee.

Before POLITZ, Chief Judge, and HIGGINBOTHAM and SMITH, Circuit Judges.

POLITZ, Chief Judge:

In the late 1960s Orleans Parish District Attorney Jim Garrison prosecuted New Orleans businessman Clay Shaw for violations of Louisiana state law in connection with his alleged participation in a conspiracy to assassinate President John F. Kennedy. The records of that fruitless and now infamous prosecution are contained in a file cabinet in New Orleans, Louisiana; current Orleans Parish District Attorney Harry F. Connick is the custodian of those...

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