Word: crime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Griffin said flatly that all such lawyers should be disbarred: "Obtaining the truth from a witness, establishing a fact material to the security of the U.S., is more important to the general welfare and the public as a whole than the prosecution of a single individual for his specific crime." Replied Dean Griswold: "Lawyers should be leading spokesmen in trying to explain that sometimes a lawyer who invokes the amendment may be striking a blow for freedom...
...Burr case, the Government attorneys argued that the Fifth Amendment could be properly invoked only when the answer to a question would, by itself, be enough to convict the witness of a crime. Said Marshall...
...Williams, the courts have adhered to the Marshall opinion-but this has not prevented abuses. "In recent years," says Williams, "the public has frequently read of witnesses who invoke the Fifth Amendment, particularly before congressional committees, but thereupon issue statements to the press that they are innocent of any crime . . . This practice has recently received impressive sanction in the form of an article by Dean Erwin N. Griswold of the Harvard Law School, in which he maintains that a man innocent of any crime may rightfully use the privilege when questioned concerning past membership in the Communist Party...
...Griswold article to which Williams refers was also circulated under Fund for the Republic auspices. It introduced a hypothetical college professor, innocent of any crime on the statute books, who once joined the Communist Party, participated only in study-group activities, became disillusioned and left the party at the outbreak of the Korean war. The professor was later questioned by a congressional committee. Wrote Dean...
...Christian experiment: the East Harlem Protestant Parish. With 21 other students (twelve boys, nine girls) from Colby, Swarthmore, Colgate, Union Theological Seminary and other Eastern and Midwestern colleges, they had forsaken beach or mountains to spend their summer vacations in one of the country's most densely populated, crime-ridden areas. Their mission: to practice Christianity...