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- Title: People v. Crawford Distributing Co.
- Author : Supreme Court of Illinois
- Release Date : January 01, 1972
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 72 KB
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The issues in this appeal arise out of the efforts of the Attorney General and his agents to investigate alleged violations of the Illinois Antitrust Act by the defendants. The record indicates that certain meetings and discussions took place between representatives of the Attorney General and certain of the individual defendants during the course of an investigation conducted by the Attorney General into beer prices in Macon County. Defendants Harold Roucher, Robert T. Crawford, Gerald Skeffington and Henry W. Little received subpoenas directed to the respective corporations of which they were officers or agents, but defendants Jerry Roucher and Robert Skeffington received no subpoenas. None of the individual defendants gave either sworn testimony or a statement under oath to the agents of the Attorney General. Essentially, this appeal presents two questions for determination by this court: First, may an individual who is an officer or agent of a corporation, but who is neither individually subpoenaed nor gives sworn testimony, claim immunity from prosecution under section 7.7 of the Illinois Antitrust Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1969, ch. 38, par. 60-7.7) when he produces corporate records and discusses them in response to a subpoena issued to such a corporation by the Attorney General? Second, is the power vested in the Attorney General to issue such pretrial subpoenas in contravention of the separation of powers doctrine, as expressed in section 1 of article II of the Illinois constitution of 1970? Other ancillary issues have been raised by the various defendants, but we believe that the determination of these two questions are decisive of the issues in this case.