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...District Judge Luther W. Youngdahl dismissed four counts, including the key charge, for "vagueness" in violation of the Sixth Amendment - which requires that defend ants be informed of the exact charges against them...
Last week the government appealed Federal Judge Youngdahl's dismissal of the major charges against Owen Lattimore for the second time within a year. This decision by the U.S. attorney represents only one further example of its mishandling of the Lattimore trial...
...Government has already made two indictments against Lattimore, both of which Youngdahl rejected as unconstitutional. When he dismissed as too vague its first major charge, that Lattimore was a Communist sympathizer, U.S. attorney Rover accused Youngdahl of prejudice and asked him to withdraw from the case. Rover's accusation came very close to a demand for a judge who would give the verdict he desired...
Last week, in Washington, two key counts in a Government perjury indictment against Owen Lattimore, onetime State Department adviser on Far East policy, were thrown out of court by U.S. District Judge Luther W. Youngdahl. The court ruled that the charges were "formless and obscure," and therefore denied the defendant protections guaranteed him in the Constitution and the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. The Justice Department has three alternatives: to appeal (although an appeal failed the last time a similar decision was handed down by Judge Youngdahl); to go to trial with the remaining counts on the original indictment...
...Judge Youngdahl, 17 years a jurist, was Minnesota's three-time Republican governor when appointed to the U.S. District Court in 1951 by Harry Truman (in a neat political double play to behead Minnesota's Republican Party and help the state's Fair Dealing Senator Hubert Humphrey). In last week's hearing he was the sole judge of his own fitness. The next day, in an outraged memorandum, he judged himself fit, retained the Lattimore case, rebuked federal prosecutors for acting "irresponsibly and recklessly." Their purpose, he concluded, was "to discredit, in the public mind...