In Re Grand Jury Proceedings, George Gordon Liddy

WILKEY, Circuit Judge:

Appellant George Gordon Liddy seeks reversal of an order of civil contempt which the District Court entered against him on 3 April 1973. 1 The contempt order issued when Liddy persisted in asserting his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination in response to questioning before the 5 June 1972 Watergate grand jury, despite a District Court order granting him conpulsory immunity pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 6002. 2 The District Court found that there was no “just cause” for Liddy’s contumacy and, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1826, 3 ordered that Liddy “be confined until…