Word: kamin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
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...
Lawyers for Wendell H. Furry, associate professor of Physics, and the government were trying yesterday to determine what effect Judge Bailey Aldrich's decision acquitting Leon J. Kamin '48 would have on Furry's pending trial...
Meanwhile Sen. McCarthy called the acquittal of Kamin a "ridiculous" decision by a judge who, he said, "should have disqualified himself...