WBZ-TV4 v. District Attorney for the Suffolk District

How courts have described this case

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• noting that, in connection with grand jury proceeding, “a judge in the Superior Court accepted and read in camera a memorandum submitted by the district attorney detailing reasons why disclosure of the witness statement would compromise the ongoing grand jury investigation”
• indicating distinction between investigatory materials and information provided to court in pursuit of search warrant
• \requirement that grand jury proceedings remain secret is deeply rooted in the common law of the Commonwealth\
• “the videotape has the characteristics of material especially prepared for the grand jury which, when received by them, should ordinarily be protected by the rule of grand jury secrecy”
• disclosure of tape-recorded witness statement inappropriate in context of ongoing criminal investigation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).