Statement of the Lexington Grand Jury Defense Fund Committee (1975)

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The Lexington Grand Jury Defense Fund Committee's statement on the March 8, 1975 jailing of six people — five women and one man, all gay — held in contempt for refusing to answer a federal grand jury in Lexington, Kentucky (the Lexington Six). It argues that using grand juries to coerce testimony, rather than to return indictments, is an abuse of the system and a violation of civil liberties, and calls for united resistance.