In Re Grand Jury Proceedings Cecil Mills. Appeal of United States of America. In Re Grand Jury Proceedings Cecil Mills. Appeal of Cecil Mills

OPINION OF THE COURT

SLOVITER, Circuit Judge.

I

On August 14,1981, pursuant to a writ of habeas corpus ad testificandum, appellee/cross-appellant Cecil Mills appeared before a federal grand jury for the District of Delaware. The grand jury was investigating the December 17, 1980 armed robbery of a Wilmington, Delaware, bank by at least two men,1 one of whom wore a dark blue ski mask which was recovered from the scene of the robbery by the police shortly after the crime was completed. Mills was and is suspected of being the masked robber.2 The grand jury directed Mills to (1) furnish samples of…