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...brief against the prosecution is stronger. Hoover wanted his agents to arrest Julius Rosenberg without a warrant. "Strict observance of technicalities in favor of openly avowed conspirators is shocking," he wrote at the bottom of a memo, without attributing the source of the avowals. U.S. Attorney Irving Saypol, who prosecuted the case, made prejudicial statements to the press. FBI and Atomic Energy Commission files indicate that Trial Judge Irving R. Kaufman conducted improper discussions with a Justice Department official and with other judges. In many ways, Radosh and Milton make Kaufman the heavy of their book. He had the onerous...
Died. Irving H. Saypol, 71, justice of the New York State Supreme Court who was federal prosecutor in the 1951 espionage-conspiracy trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg; of cancer; in Manhattan. As U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Saypol also supervised cases against Alger Hiss, Judith Coplon and top U.S. Communist leaders...
Parts of the trial itself are very suspect. The jury, which was entirely white, included no Jews, and no one who could be considered anything but politically conservative; the prosecution, but not the defense, had access to the FBI files of prospective jurors. U.S. Attorney Irving Saypol frequently alluded to secret evidence which he claimed could not be presented in court, and after the trial Judge Kaufman told the jury that a great deal more evidence had existed. No such evidence has ever been produced...
...York State Supreme Court Justice Irving H. Saypol viewed the film, then rendered his verdict: on with the show. Director May vows an appeal to withdraw the film. If that fails, she wants her name removed from the credits. Fortunately, she cannot remove her face. It belongs to the funniest litigant in town...
Verbal Spanking. Judge Saypol, who last year upheld the constitutionality of the Condon-Wadlin Act, solemnly warned the authority not to follow "any course which would increase the compensation of the strikers in violation of the law." In Saypol's opinion, the issue at stake is nothing less than the very preservation of the rule of law. If laws that are disliked can be violated with impunity, then anarchy prevails and "liberties become useless," said the judge...