Word: crime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brownell proposes to take one immunity away from the witness by giving him another. Congress would give the Attorney General the power to declare that a certain witness would never be prosecuted for a crime that he disclosed or told about OR a federal witness stand...
...attorney general with the power that Brownell wants would have to choose carefully between suspected conspirators, lest big ones get away by testifying under immunity while less guilty associates are trapped by the testimony of the more guilty. But this task is not impossible. Said Brownell: "Almost every heinous crime on the law books, committed by individuals or by groups, remains uncovered because of the privilege against self-incrimination ... It is little wonder that law-abiding citizens frequently are heard to say that subversives and other wrongdoers are unduly coddled by law. They find it difficult to understand...
...John departed, and is Lilburne gone? Farewell to Lilburne, and farewell to John. But lay John here, lay Lilburne here about, For if they ever meet, they will jail out. -Communism itself has never been defined as a crime in the U.S., but the 1940 Smith Act, making conspiracy to overthrow the U.S. Government illegal, has been interpreted by the courts to mean that Communist associations are conceivable grounds for criminal prosecution...
...added deterrent to such crimes, where the criminal often turns out to have a long police record, O'Donnell also makes the "serious proposal that any member of a federal, state or county parole board, or any judge who recommends a pardon or commutation of sentence, or any President who springs a federal prisoner or restores citizenship, shall, in the event the convicted criminal commits a crime after his release, be tossed automatically into the jailhouse to serve the same term as that imposed on the criminal he has improperly released...
...Need to Fear. When the murder at the Yonkers track got other Manhattan papers interested in the harness-racing scandals, Newsday was ready. It had already turned its evidence over to the New York City Anti-Crime Committee, which handed it out to other papers to use in digging up their own stories. The New York Journal-American discovered that Acting Lieutenant Governor Arthur Wicks, along with other prominent officials, had also visited Labor Racketeer Fay in Sing Sing (TIME, Oct. 12). As a result, Dewey asked Wicks to resign. Wicks offered to "let the Senate pass upon my fitness...