153603P.pdf   12/28/2015  Grand Jury Process, John Doe  v.  
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  15-3603
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Wollman and Gruender, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - Criminal law. The district court did not err in 
   disqualifying petitioner, a lawyer representing three clients in 
   connection with an ongoing federal grand jury investigation, on the ground 
   that his concurrent representation of the three clients created a conflict 
   of interest; the court did not err in reaching this determination without 
   a hearing to consider possible waivers of counsel's conflict of interest 
   as the hearing would require a deleterious breach of grand jury secrecy; 
   assuming that a grand jury witness could waive his interest in 
   conflict-free assistance of counsel, the district court did not engage in 
   a judicial usurpation of power by concluding that no such waiver was 
   feasible or permissible under the circumstances.