United States v. Robert E. Rath

ORDER.

Appellant contends primarily in this appeal that the presence of an unauthorized person in the grand jury room rendered the indictment returned by it invalid and that receipt in evidence of a summary statement prepared by an expert constituted prejudicial error. A technical violation of Rule 6(d), Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, occurred when an attorney who was a stranger to this action unintentionally interrupted the grand jury proceedings by entering the courtroom in which they were being conducted. The record establishes that the proceedings were halted at the moment of his…