JENCKS v. UNITED STATES

No. 23.

353 U.S. 657 (1957)

JENCKS v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 3, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John T. McTernan argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the brief was Nathan Witt.

John V. Lindsay argued the cause for the United States. With him on the brief were Solicitor General Rankin, Assistant Attorney General Tompkins, Clinton B. D. Brown and Harold D. Koffsky.


MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court.

On April 28, 1950, the petitioner, as president of Amalgamated Bayard District Union, Local 890, International Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers, filed an "Affidavit of Non-Communist Union Officer" with the National Labor Relations Board, pursuant to § 9 (h) of the National Labor Relations Act.1 He has been convicted under a two-count indictment charging that he

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