Charles S. Bernstein v. National Broadcasting Company, Inc.

PRETTYMAN, Circuit Judge.

These are appeals from a judgment of the District Court, in which that court granted the defendant’s motion for summary judgment in two consolidated civil actions for invasion of privacy. Briefly stated the facts are that appellant Bernstein, under the name Charles Harris, was indicted in 1933 for first-degree murder, tried, convicted, and sentenced to be executed. Several persons, including a reporter on The Washington Daily News, interested themselves in his situation and, as a result of their efforts and considerable publicity, secured for him a commutation, then…