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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...
...ridiculous to the point of being ludicrous," McCarthy told reporters in Washington. He said Aldrich "should have disqualified himself since he was a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard University and Kamin was a Harvard professor...
There is a definite possibility that Furry, who faces a 10-count indictment for contempt of Congress, may never come to trial since Judge Bailey Aldrich's acquittal decision apparently covers the entire investigation into "subversion and espionage" in defense plants, for which Furry, as well as Kamin, was called...