Court Opinion

ID: 9469825
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 02:50:04.156814+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:41:35.295023
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VAN GRAAFEILAND, Circuit Judge,
concurring:
I am not prepared to hold that, despite the provisions of Rule 6(e), there is a “real *125and substantial risk” that the testimony of an immunized grand jury witness will be available for use in a foreign prosecution. See In re Baird, 668 F.2d 432, 434 (8th Cir.), cert. denied, - U.S. -, 102 S.Ct. 2255, 72 L.Ed.2d 860 (1982); United States v. Brummitt, 665 F.2d 521, 524-26 (5th Cir. 1981), cert. denied, - U.S. -, 102 S.Ct. 2244, 72 L.Ed.2d 852 (1982). If we carry out our professed intent to see that the Rule is enforced, In re Biaggi, 478 F.2d 489, 490 n.1 (2d Cir. 1973); Matter of Archuleta, 432 F.Supp. 583, 599 (S.D.N.Y.1977), the likelihood is that the tradition of grand jury secrecy, which is “older than the Nation itself”, Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. v. United States, 360 U.S. 395, 399, 79 S.Ct. 1237, 1240, 3 L.Ed.2d 1323 (1959), will not be cavalierly disregarded.
With the foregoing reservation, I concur in Judge Mansfield’s well-reasoned opinion.