Legal Opinion
In Re Grand Jury Subpoena for Attorney Representing Criminal Jose Evaristo Reyes-Requena
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 19, 1990No. 89-6252PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:
We confront here the tension between the requirement that every citizen be prepared to offer his testimony to a grand jury and the entitlement of every criminal defendant to the single-minded attention of his attorney. The U.S. Attorney’s office subpoenaed Mike DeGeurin, who had appeared as counsel for Jose Evaristo Reyes-Requena, to testify before a grand jury in the short interval between Reyes-Reque-na’s pretrial detention hearing and his indictment by that same grand jury. DeGeu-rin moved to quash the subpoena. After a hearing, the district court granted the…
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