Legal Opinion

In re the Second Additional Grand Jury of the County of Kings

New York County Courts

Decided November 16, 1959Published

1Opinion of the CourtHyman Barshay, J.

The District Attorney of Kings County seeks by this motion to adjudge the respondents in criminal contempt of this court and to punish them for violation of paragraph 5 of subdivision A of section 750 of the Judiciary Law of the State of New York, for contemptuously and unlawfully refusing to answer legal and proper interrogatories propounded to them after they were duly sworn as witnesses before a duly constituted Grand Jury and after they were duly offered immunity from criminal prosecution in accordance with the provisions of section 2447 of the Penal Law.

The Second Additional March, 1958,…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. People v. De FeoNew York Court of Appeals · 1955
  2. People ex rel. Coyle v. TruesdellAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1940
  3. People v. BreslinNew York Court of Appeals · 1954
  4. People v. Nationwide News Service, Inc.New York Supreme Court · 1939
  5. People v. Riley, New York County Courts1927

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