Word: popkin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...First Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered Samuel L. Popkin, assistant professor of Government, to agree to answer three questions before a Boston grand jury investigating the Pentagon Papers case or face penalties for civil contempt...
Things began moving once again last Friday, as the U.S. Attorney's office filed its long-awaited disclaimer of wiretapping in the case of Samuel L. Popkin, assistant professor of Government. The government's action, which was required by a July 13 ruling by the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals, opened the way for a revision of that court's earlier finding that Popkin was in contempt for refusing to answer three questions before a Boston grand jury...
...Popkin and his attorneys were optimistic about the possibility of a favorable new ruling by the appeals court, based on the Supreme Court's summer decisions dealing with the privileges of the press...
...earlier court decision said that relevance was of no consequence or very little consequence," said William P. Homans '41, an attorney for Popkin. But the Supreme Court in Branzburg vs. Hayes, stressed the importance of relevance in grand jury inquiries. And that, said Popkin, "is what we've been saying all along. We know we have to answer the questions--but they have to be screened carefully...
...Popkin, whose field of specialty is Vietnam, has contended repeatedly that in publicizing his academic findings he fills a role analogous to that of a newsman. He has said that any requirement to answer questions with a "remote and tenuous relationship to the investigation" would have a "chilling effect" on the cooperation of his sources and thus violate his First Amendment rights to free speech and free press...