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Judge Bailey Aldrich '28, who has been trying Kamin without a jury, announced the decision briefly to a full courtroom and released copies of a 25-page opinion supporting the judgment. The entire proceeding took less than five minutes...
This was the investigation for which Kamin was summoned before McCarthy in Boston two years ago. In a televised hearing Kamin refused to answer, on grounds of conscience, six questions McCarthy asked him about his former associates in the Communist party...
...making his announcement, Judge Aldrich reversed his decision of Nov. 2 to dismiss two counts of the original six-count indictment against Kamin for contempt of Congress. He reinstated them and then acquitted Kamin on all counts...
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...