Can a witness be found guilty of contempt for failing to provide the required information to the Grand Jury?

"New York", United States of America

The following excerpt is from Cole, Matter of, 145 N.Y.S.2d 748, 208 Misc. 697 (N.Y. Gen. Sess. 1955):

Although the question did not arise in Steingut v. Imrie, supra, in the same manner in which it does in the case at bar, certainly the inference is clear that, if the witness was not guilty of contempt for failure to compile the required details of information given to him by the Grand Jury, then it must follow that the Grand Jury had no legal right to ask him to do so in the first place. To this latter extent the case is an authority in support of the contention of the witnesses in this proceeding.

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