Legal Opinion
Morris Simkin v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 8, 1983No. 1670, Docket 83-6185PublishedCited by 82 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NEWMAN, Circuit Judge:
This appeal concerns the recurring and troublesome problem of determining at what point, if ever, during the maximum eighteen-month period in which a recalcitrant grand jury witness may be incarcerated for civil contempt, 28 U.S.C. § 1826 (1976), the witness should be released because the contempt sanction has lost all coercive effect. Morris Simkin appeals from the June 29,1983, order of the District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Mark A. Costantino, Judge) denying his motion for release from commitment for civil contempt. Because the record reflects…
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