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Yesterday's opening testimony at the trial of Leon J. Kamin '49 followed a fruitless first day which ended in a mistrial and a waiver by Kamin of his right to a trial by jury. The mistrial was caused by loud applause for Senator Joseph R. McCarthy...
After conferences between the judge, Kamin, and lawyers for both sides, the court met at 3:45 p.m. after a recess of nearly three hours. Kamin's attorney, Calvin P. Bartlett, immediately moved for a mistrial and the motion was granted after Kamin asked for it personally...
...trial, without a jury, is considered more favorable to Kamin. Judge Aldrich will now hear questions of fact and rule on legal matters...
...defense has been contesting this power ever since Kamin was indicted last December. They asked without success last spring that Judge Aldrich dismiss Kamin's indictment mainly on the grounds that the McCarthy committee had exceeded its authority...
...haven't made much of a study of Harvard," McCarthy said affably as he emerged from a two-hour briefing by U.S. attorneys in the Federal Building, "but that much hasn't changed." McCarthy arrived in Boston Sunday to testify at this morning's trial of Leon J. Kamin...