Legal Opinion
United States v. Sobell
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided June 20, 1956PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
IRVING R. KAUFMAN, District Judge.
On March 29, 1951, a jury of eleven men and one woman found Morton Sobell guilty of conspiring to commit espionage by transmitting to the Soviet Union, intended for its benefit, “documents, writings, sketches, notes and information relating to the national defense of the United States.” Their verdict was.returned at the end of an exhaustive trial, at which Sobell’s two extremely able attorneys and the able lawyers of his co-defendants, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, skillfully but vainly tried to stem the avalanche of evidence against them. The trial was held in…
2Cases cited41 opinions
- McNabb v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
- Frisbie v. CollinsSupreme Court of the United States · 1952
- Stein v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1953
- Ker v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
- Ford v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1926
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3Cited by25 opinions
- United States v. Consolidated Laundries Corp.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1961
- United States v. Morton SobellCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1963
- Charles Laurent Fiocconi and Jean Claude Kella v. Attorney General of the United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1972
- Imbler v. CravenDistrict Court, C.D. California · 1969
- United States v. Morton SobellCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1957
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