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...issue was the case of Dr. Milan Vuitch, arrested three years ago under the anti-abortion law in Washington, D.C. Judge Gerhard A. Gesell ruled the law unconstitutionally vague because it permitted abortions only to preserve a mother's "life or health." Finding that the word health provided "no clear standard to guide either the doctor, the jury or the court," Gesell dismissed the Vuitch indictment. By a 5-to-2 vote last week, the Supreme Court disagreed. Speaking for the majority, Justice Hugo Black held that "health" is a clear standard, the statute is therefore constitutional...
...years ago, Billie Austin Bryant stood before U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell in Washington, D.C., to await sentencing after having been convicted of killing two FBI agents. Under the law, Judge Gesell had only two alternatives: electrocution or life imprisonment. Though he declared that death was merited by the mercilessness of the deed, the judge spared Bryant's life. "It would not serve the ends of effective justice to allow the defendant the luxury of all the special attention that a capital penalty would generate," he said. Addressing the defendant, Gesell intoned: "Mr. Bryant, you will...
...Arnold Gesell, the late famed pediatrician, Gerhard grew up in New Haven and attended Yale. After graduation, he was undecided whether to go into medicine or law. To help his son make up his mind, Dr. Gesell invited him to attend a major surgical operation. Young Gesell stayed a few bloody minutes, then fled from the amphitheater. His mind was made...
...Richard H. Ichord (D-Mo.) accused U. S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell of suppressing a legislative report. He called on the House to "assert and defend" Congress' power over its own business...
Declaring that an official Congressional Committee report on campus speakers was issued "solely for the sake of exposure or intimidation." U. S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gessell yesterday prohibited its public distribution by the government...