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...also an active commentator on a number of important legal cases: it was an article by Frankfurter in the Atlantic Monthly that first brought the case of Sacco and Vanzetti to national attention...
...hearings wore on, the attorneys for Sacco and Vanzetti gradually became convinced that the committee was irrevocably prejudiced against them. "The doom of our clients seemed as inevitable as that of Socrates, and we were unwilling to continue in the face of unfair treatment, one defense attorney said...
...committee seems to have first reached the judgment that Sacco and Vanzetti were guilty and then to have interpreted the evidence so that it would best support this conclusion. But there can be no question that Lowell and the other members of the committee felt their decision to be a correct one. This is the real tragedy of Sacco-Vanzetti: that the best of people with the best intentions managed to do the worst of deeds--kill two men who did not deserve...
...weight of the eyewitness testimony, the evidence of the cap, the "consciousness of guilt" evidence, and the ballistics testimony proved that Sacco was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Then it weights the evidence and comes to the frustrating conclusion that "On the whole, we are of opinion that Vanzetti was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt." "On the whole" and "beyond a reasonable doubt" simply do not seem compatible...
...report went to Governor Fuller, who agreed with its findings. Sacco and Vanzetti were executed on August 23, 1927, while men continued to debate their guilt or innocence. But whether or not Sacco and Vanzetti actually murdered Parmenter and Berardelli, there can be little question that the Lowell Committee failed in its objective--an honest overall evaluation of the case...