Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg v. United States

ante, p. 838. Motion for leave to file brief of Dr. W. E. B. Dubois and others, as amici curiae, denied. Petitions for rehearing denied. Memorandum filed by Mr. Justice Frankfurter in No. 111.

Mr. Justice Black adheres to his view that the petitions for certiorari should be granted. Mr. Justice Frankfurter.

Petitioners are under death sentence, and it is not unreasonable to feel that before life is taken review should be open in the highest court of the society which has condemned them. Such right of review was the law of the land for twenty years. By § 6 of the Act of February 6, 1889, 25…