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...coincidence Federal District Judge Luther Youngdahl last week dismissed two indictments charging Casey with conspiring to defraud the Government in surplus-ship sales to Greek shippers. Casey had won immunity by telling a federal grand jury about the transactions...
...decision last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington struck a hard blow at the U.S. Department of Justice's celebrated case against Far East Expert Owen Lattimore. The court upheld District Judge Luther W. Youngdahl's dismissal of the key count in a perjury indictment against the former State Department consultant. Said the court: the charge that Lattimore lied when he told the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee that he was not a "sympathizer" or "promoter" of Communism was "void for vagueness"; the indictment should have defined its terms...
...same vote, the court also upheld Youngdahl's dismissal of a charge that Lattimore lied when he denied that a 1937 visit to Red headquarters in Yenan, China was made by prearrangement with the "Communist Party." Properly drawn (i.e., based on Lattimore's specific testimony), it should have read "Communist authorities," the court held. Two other counts dismissed by Youngdahl were reinstated by 5-4 decisions, leaving five counts of the indictment still standing...
...Judge Youngdahl (Republican governor of Minnesota from 1947 to 1951, then member of the federal judiciary by appointment of Harry Truman) ruled that the dismissed counts were "fatally defective" because they infringed on an individual's constitutional right to free opinion and to clear accusation when standing trial. A broadside charge that Lattimore falsely denied being "a sympathizer or promoter of Communism or Communist interests" was, said the court, "so nebulous and indefinite that a jury would have to indulge in speculation in order to arrive at a verdict...
...Youngdahl set trial on the three remaining charges for Oct. 6, but directed Government attorneys to be more specific about "overt acts" on which a jury must decide Lattimore's guilt or innocence...