Word: wiretap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those ringing words, pronounced by Justice Owen Roberts in 1937, the U.S. Supreme Court (Justices Sutherland and McReynolds dissenting) upset a smuggling conviction on the ground that essential evidence in the case against the smugglers had been obtained by wiretapping. Since then, the ban on wiretap evidence in federal courts has stuck, shielding not only smugglers but members of Communist espionage rings...
...Attorney General Herbert Brownell, it seems absurd and dangerous to let spies "go unwhipped of justice" behind that shield. Brownell's campaign for a law that "would allow the Government to use wiretap evidence to prove its espionage cases" has touched off a wiretapping controversy, and one result of it is likely to be the passage of a wiretapping bill at the next session of Congress...
...Nardone v. U.S., smuggling), that wiretap evidence was inadmissible, because "the phrase 'no person' comprehends federal agents, and the ban on communication to 'any person' bars testimony to the content of an intercepted message...
...Nardone v. U.S., retrial), that evidence gathered as a result of wiretap leads was "fruit of the poisonous tree," and therefore inadmissible...
Internal Security: To strengthen the Internal Security Act, the Administration will propose that the Justice Department be authorized to 1) use wiretap evidence in security cases, and 2) force witnesses to testify about the acts of others in security cases by granting immunity from self-incrimination (TIME...