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Messrs. William C. Chanler and Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., for petitioner.
Solicitor General Perlman, Assistant Attorney General McInerney, Robert L. Stern and Beatrice Rosenberg, for the United States.
Mr. Justice BLACK, with whom Mr. Justice DOUGLAS concurs, dissenting.
A federal district court grand jury indicted petitioner for perjury. A petit jury convicted him. The Court of Appeals reversed but refused to order the indictment dismissed. 191 F.2d 246. Petitioner is now seeking certiorari, claiming that the indictment should have been dismissed. The majority now denies his petition. I think we should grant and consider two questions the petitioner presents. These questions challenge the fairness of the prosecutorial methods used to obtain and to sustain the indictment.
Dissenting memorandum filed by Mr. Justice BLACK, with whom Mr. Justice DOUGLAS concurs.
Mr. Justice CLARK took no part in the consideration or decision of this application.
The first challenge is:
Governmental conduct here charged is abhorrent to a fair administration of justice. It approaches the type of practices unanimously condemned by this Court as a violation of due process of law in Mooney v. Holohan, 294 U.S. 103 . For this reason I have felt constrained to depart from my custom and give reasons for my vote to grant certiorari in this case.
As to the legal significance of a denial of the petition for writ of certiorari, Mr. Justice FRANKFURTER refers to his memoranda in State of Maryland v. Baltimore Radio Show, Inc., 338 U.S. 912 ; and Agoston v. Com. of Pennsylvania, 340 U.S. 844 .
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Citation: 343 U.S. 907
Docket No: No. 387
Decided: March 24, 1952
Court: United States Supreme Court
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