In Re the Thirty-Fifth Statewide Investigating Grand Jury

OPINION ANNOUNCING THE JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

Chief Justice SAYLOR.

Through the filing of an action in quo warranto, Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane has asked this Court *385to quash the appointment of a special prosecutor investigating violations of grand jury secrecy requirements.

In the Spring of 2014, the supervising judge for the Thirty-Fifth Statewide Investigating Grand Jury found that there were reasonable grounds to believe that an investigation should be conducted into allegations that grand jury secrecy had been compromised. See generally 42 Pa.C.S. § 4549(b) (providing that…