United States v. Barbara Jean Fitch, and Robert Keelan Meisel, Jr., Grand Jury Witnesses, Charles Farrell Malone, Attempted Intervenor

Fitch and Meisel have been adjudged guilty of civil contempt (after having been granted “use” immunity) for refusal to testify before a federal grand jury. Malone, already under indictment, 1 sought to intervene. This was denied. All three appeal.

We list most of the contentions and our responses:

1. That the witnesses claimed their sometime attorney had been subject to electronic surveillance by someone and they were denied an opportunity to substantiate their claim or to fully explore it.

The answer is that the government, by affidavit, made a showing that no conversations of counsel talking…