Legal Opinion
In Re Fortieth Statewide Investigating Grand Jury
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided August 21, 2018No. 45 WM 2017PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SAYLOR, C.J., BAER, TODD, DONOHUE, DOUGHERTY, WECHT, MUNDY, JJ.
Chief Justice Saylor delivers the Opinion of the Court, and Justice Baer also speaks for the Court, by way of concurrence.
OPINION
CHIEF JUSTICE SAYLOR
This appeal concerns a challenge to the practice of requiring private attorneys who may be privy to confidential information related to a grand jury investigation to commit to maintaining the secrecy of all information they may acquire regarding the grand jury.
The case involves the 40th Statewide Investigating Grand Jury, which was convened in 2016 per the Investigating Grand Jury…
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