RICCOBENE APPEAL


439 Pa. 404 (1970)

Riccobene Appeal.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

July 13, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald N. Rutenberg, with him Harry A. Rutenberg, Michael J. Rutenberg, and Rutenberg, Rutenberg, Rutenberg & Rutenberg, for appellant.

Arlen Specter, District Attorney, with him Esther R. Sylvester, John Rogers Carroll, Assistant District Attorneys, James D. Crawford, Deputy District Attorney, and Richard A. Sprague, First Assistant District Attorney, for appellee.

Edward Friedman, Counsel General, with him David W. Rutstein, Deputy Attorney General, and William C. Sennett, Attorney General, for appellee.

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


OPINION BY MR. CHIEF JUSTICE BELL, July 13, 1970:

Appellant, Mario Riccobene, was sworn as a witness by Judge SLOANE to testify before the Investigating Grand Jury in the City of Philadelphia on October 27, 1969. The Grand Jury had begun sitting on April 8, 1969, for the purpose of investigating organized crime and alleged corruption in the governmental departments and agencies of the City of Philadelphia.

On November 20, 1969, appellant was questioned before...

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