Word: popkin
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Samuel L. Popkin, assistant professor of Government, will go to jail on Tuesday unless the U. S. Court of Appeals grants his lawyers' request for another deferment of his prison sentence. The appeal will be based on the grounds that the Supreme Court is likely to hear Popkin's case during its coming term...
...lawyers will request two alternate extensions: one lasting 30 days with an option for renewal, or one scheduled to expire in November when the Supreme Court decides whether to accept Popkin's application for a hearing...
...Popkin has argued since September that he is not legally required to disclose his academic sources to a Boston grand jury investigating the leak of the Pentagon Papers to the press. A major point in his argument was a claim of academic privilege similar to Earl Caldwell's claim of journalistic privilege which a New York court ruling supported early this year...
Thus, the court ordered that Popkin answer the three questions dealing with the names of persons interviewed who gave him knowledge of the participants in the Pentagon Papers...
...same time, the court judged that "in the long run, the quest for opinions would not be a useful investigative tool. If (Popkin) were forced to answer, scholar-sleuths would in the future think long and hard before admitting to an opinion, and grand juries would be without workable means for forcing them to do so." And it thereby struck down the lower court decision dealing with the remaining four questions that the government had decided to press...