Word: hoffa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more important than those ironic effects is the fact that the Hoffa decision, along with two others last week, approved Government use of informers and certain electronic eavesdropping-practices that go to the very heart of privacy as well as due process...
Immune Plant. To snare Hoffa, Attorney General Robert Kennedy's Justice Department deliberately used spy tactics to get evidence, for which, Chief Justice Earl Warren sadly said, "the Government paid an enormous price." Soon after Hoffa went on trial in Nash ville in 1962 for accepting a bribe from trucking operators, the Government curtly told the judge that he was trying to bribe two of his prospective jurors. Though the judge dismissed the two jurors, that trial eventually ended in a hung jury. Hoffa was next tried on the jury-fixing charge in Chattanooga in 1964. And that time...
Largely as a result of what Partin reported that Hoffa had said about his juror-buying efforts back in 1962, the Chattanooga jury convicted Hoffa and three aides. Thus the Supreme Court faced a key question: Did the Government so violate Hoffa's constitutional rights by planting a spy in his "quarters and councils" that Partin's evidence should have been suppressed...
...that, Warren approved the use of informers in two related cases. Hoffa Lawyer Z. T. Osborn Jr. was appealing his own conviction (3½ years) for trying to slip $10,000 to one of Hoffa's Chattanooga jurors. In Osborn's case, the informer was Policeman Robert Vick, who had originally been hired by Osborn to investigate Hoffa's Nashville jurors, and who was later asked by Osborn to help bribe a prospective juror. By then, Vick had switched sides, and with approval of two judges, the feds had armed him with a tape recorder into which...
...strengthen the Fourth Amendment, Douglas argued, the court should have required the Lewis-case narcotics agent to get a search warrant, for which he had probable cause. In Hoffa, even though Douglas voted to dismiss on technical grounds, he denounced the Government for " 'planting' a friend in a person's entourage so that he can secure incriminating evidence." In Osborn, Douglas argued that even prior judicial approval of Vick's bugging violated the Fourth Amendment ban against a search designed to uncover anything more than the loot or the tools of a crime. Moreover, he insisted...