Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. v. United States

Petitioners stand convicted on a single-count indictment charging a conspiracy under § 1 of the Sherman Act. They contend that the trial judge erred in refusing to permit them to inspect the grand jury minutes covering the testimony before that body of a key government witness at the trial. The Court of Appeals affirmed the convictions, 260 F. 2d 397. With reference to the present claim, it held that Rule 6 (e) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure1 committed the inspection or not of grand jury minutes to the sound discretion of the trial judge, *397and that in this instance, no abuse of…