United States District Court D. New Jersey.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
January 27, 1950.
January 27, 1950.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Solomon Golat, Newark, N. J. (O. John Rogge, New York City, William L. Patterson, Emanuel H. Bloch, Robert H. Goldman, Murray A. Gordon, Jerome J. Bornstein, New York City, of counsel), for plaintiff.
Theodore D. Parsons, Attorney General of the state of New Jersey, John W. Griggs, Deputy Attorney General, for defendant.
Morton Stavis, New York City, for Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, District Council No. 4, amicus curiae.
Witt & Cammer, New York City (Ralph Shapiro, New York City, of counsel), for Fur, Dresses and Dyers Local 140 and others, amicus curiae.
Samuel M. Sacher, New York City, for Greater New York Regional Council and others, amicus curiae.
Neuburger, Shapiro, Rabinowitz & Boudin, New York City (Leonard B. Boudin, New York City, of counsel), for Local 19, Social Service Employees Union of the United Office and Professional Workers of America, amicus curiae.
William Rossmore, Newark, N. J., for Locals 7, 11 and 15 of the United Office and Professional Workers of America, amicus curiae.
Robert K. Bell, Ocean City, for New Jersey State Bar Ass'n, amicus curiae.
George Gildea, Trenton, N. J., for the Mercer County Bar Ass'n, amicus curiae.
United States District Court D. New Jersey.
FORMAN, District Judge.
From the complaint in this case it appears that the plaintiffs Ralph Cooper, Collis English and James H. Thorpe, with three others, were convicted on a charge of murder in the Mercer County Court of the State of New Jersey on August 6, 1948. The sentence of death was imposed upon them by the defendant, Honorable Charles P. Hutchinson, Judge of the said court. They were represented in their trial by court appointed counsel.
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