The PEOPLE v. Dorr

This is an appeal from an order of the circuit court of Cook County adjudging Edward Dorr (herein referred to as respondent) in contempt of court for wilfully failing to comply with a court order requiring the production of certain documents theretofore requested from him under a subpoena duces tecum. The presence of constitutional questions brings the cause directly to this court. (See our Rule 603.) 43 Ill.2d R. 603.

The record before us discloses that a special February, 1970, Cook County grand jury, impaneled for the purpose of investigating possible violations of the Illinois Antitrust…