G. Elmer Brown v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• reversing a perjury conviction because the grand jury was investigating crimes in another jurisdic- tion and the purpose of the questioning was to lay a foundation for a perjury indictment
• defendant was not guilty of perjury although he gave false testimony, because the grand jury was without authority to inquire into offenses
• Eighth Circuit quoted district court’s finding that grand jury activities had come “ ‘perilously close to being a fraud on the jurisdiction of this Court.’ ”

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