Word: aldrich
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...making his announcement, Judge Aldrich reversed his decision of Nov. 2 to dismiss two counts of the original six-count indictment against Kamin for contempt of Congress. He reinstated them and then acquitted Kamin on all counts...
...Aldrich's acquittal of Kamin is nearly unique in Federal jurisprudence. Only a handful of men who have refused to testify before Congressional committees have been found innocent, and usually their cases have gone to the Supreme Court before they were successful...
...decision also represents a rare instance when the courts have found that a Congressional committee exceeded its jurisdiction. Besides Judge Aldrich's own decision to acquit Kamin on two counts last November, the most recent occurred in 1953 when the Supreme court said in the Rumely case that an investigation of lobbying did not allow Congress a general mandate to investigate pamphlet-publishing...
...government briefs had argued that the Courts normally give Congressional committees the benefit of the doubt in presuming the "legitimacy of their motives." Aldrich said this could be done when the Committee had clear authority, but not when the Committee clearly lacked...
...Judge Aldrich struck down many of the arguments the defense had built up during the trial. He declared Kamin's grounds of conscience legally insufficient. He said he had no grounds to disbelieve Senator McCarthy's testimony at the trial that Kamin had been informed sufficiently of the reason he had been asked to appear. He did not feel that Kamin's constitutional rights had been infringed...