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PEOPLE v. WALKER

Docket No. 55857, (Calendar No. 15).

393 Mich. 333 (1975)

224 N.W.2d 879

PEOPLE v. WALKER PEOPLE v. JIMERSON

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided January 21, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, William L. Cahalan, Prosecuting Attorney, Roy C. Hayes, Director Wayne County Organized Crime Task Force Section, and John E. Steele, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

Michael F. Sapala, Frederick B. Bellamy, and Alan G. Gilchrist, for defendants.

WILLIAMS, J.

Defendants in this matter raise a number of significant issues regarding the propriety of the citizens' grand jury and allied proceedings in the instant case which culminated in their serving sentences for two instances of civil contempt for a period of more than one year. The single dispositive question we resolve today is whether defendants can properly be imprisoned for two terms totaling a sentence of more than one year for failure to answer the same...

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