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COM. ex rel. SPECTER v. FREED

424 Pa. 508 (1967)

Commonwealth ex rel. Specter v. Freed, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

March 14, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

I. Finkelstein, for appellant.

Arlen Specter, District Attorney, with him Gordon Gelfond and Alan J. Davis, Assistant District Attorneys, for appellee.

Edward R. Becker, with him Charles W. Sweeney, for Board of Magistrates, amicus curiae.

Peter Hearn, with him Aaron D. Blumberg, and Pepper, Hamilton and Scheetz, for Greater Philadelphia Movement and Chamber of Commerce of Greater Philadelphia, amici curiae.

Ferdinand P. Schoettle, Jr., for Crime Commission of Philadelphia, Inc., amicus curiae.

Before BELL, C.J., MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, EAGEN, O'BRIEN and ROBERTS, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS, March 14, 1967:

M. Phillip Freed, a magistrate of the City of Philadelphia, appeals from the order of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County requiring him to comply with a subpoena issued by Arlen Specter, District Attorney of Philadelphia. The subpoena was issued by the district attorney in the course of an investigation by his office into whether Philadelphia magistrates were violating certain state statutes, including those...

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