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UNITED STATES v. JACKSON

No. 233, Docket 24445.

257 F.2d 830 (1958)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. James E. JACKSON, Sidney Stein, Fred Fine, Alexander Trachtenberg, William Norman and George Blake Charney, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided August 4, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Boris I. Bittker, New Haven, Conn., for defendants-appellants James E. Jackson, Sidney Stein, Fred Fine and William Norman.

Mary M. Kaufman, New York City, for defendants-appellants Alexander Trachtenberg and George Blake Charney.

Morton S. Robson, Asst. U. S. Atty., New York City (Paul W. Williams, U. S. Atty., William S. Ellis, Renee J. Gimsberg and John A. Guzzetta, Asst. U. S. Attys., New York City, on the brief), for plaintiff-appellee.

Before CLARK, Chief Judge, and PICKETT and MOORE, Circuit Judges.

PICKETT, Circuit Judge.

Following the affirmance by the United States Supreme Court of the conviction of the national leaders of the Communist Party in the United States of a conspiracy to violate the Smith Act1 (Dennis v. United States, 341 U.S. 494, 71 S.Ct. 857, 861, 95 L.Ed. 1137), the government embarked upon a nationwide program of prosecutions against the lesser lights of the Communist movement.

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