Legal Opinion
United States v. Morton Sobell
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided February 6, 1963No. 27558_1PublishedCited by 65 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge.
On March 29,1951, a jury in the Southern District of New York found Morton Sobell guilty, along with Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, under a single count indictment charging a conspiracy to violate 50 U.S.C. (1946 ed.) § 32(a), which made it a crime to “communicate, deliver or transmit, to any foreign government * * * information relating to the national defense”, or to aid or induce another to do so. Sobell was sentenced to thirty years imprisonment, under the proviso that whoever shall violate § 32(a) “in time of war shall be punished by death or by imprisonment for not…
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