Legal Opinion
In Re Grand Jury Proceedings Involving Eve Rosahn
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided January 29, 1982No. 819, Docket 81-6271PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANSFIELD, Circuit Judge:
Eve Rosahn appeals from an order of the Southern District of New York entered by Judge Irving Ben Cooper adjudicating her to be in civil contempt for refusal to provide photographs, fingerprints, handwriting exemplars, and hair samples to a federal grand jury after being ordered to do so by the grand jury and the court. We vacate the adjudication of contempt. Although we find no merit in any of Rosahn’s other claims, we believe that by holding her civil contempt trial in secret, over her objection, the district court deprived her of her right under the due process…
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