United States v. Handler

Handler, the defendant in this case, is charged in a thirty-four count indictment with having violated 18 U.S.C. § 1718 1 by mailing between August 9, 1973 and September 26, 1973 twenty (20) post cards to Mortimer M. Caplin, Esq. 2 and a further fourteen (14) post cards to Arthur J. Goldberg, Esq. In each count, the post card attributed misconduct to the latter, a former member of the Supreme Court of the United States. For example, Count One of the indictment charges that upon one of the post cards mailed to Caplin was written:

Ex-Justice Arthur J. Goldberg (your “old and close” friend) is a…