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- Title: Levine v. United States
- Author : Supreme Court of the United States
- Release Date : January 23, 1960
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 64 KB
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This is a prosecution for contempt arising from petitioners refusal to answer a series of questions propounded to him by a federal grand jury. In every respect but one, this case is a replica of Brown v. United States, 359 U.S. 41, and as to all common issues it is controlled by that case. In Brown, however, we expressly declined to decide the effect of claimed "secrecy" upon proceedings culminating in the petitioners sentencing for contempt, "because the record does not show this to be the fact." 359 U.S., at 51, n. 11. Here, it appears that the contemptuous conduct, the adjudication of guilt, and the imposition of sentence all took place after the public had been excluded from the courtroom, in what began and was continued as "a Grand Jury proceeding." The effect of this continuing exclusion in the circumstances of the case is the sole question presented.