Herman Liveright v. United States

BURGER, Circuit Judge.

Appellant was convicted after jury trial on 14 counts of a 15 count indictment for refusing to answer pertinent questions before the Internal Security Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States Senate. * The questions were asked during the course of an executive session and later at a public hearing before the Subcommittee. 1 Appellant was sentenced to three months imprisonment and a fine of $500. Conviction on any one of these counts would sustain such a sentence.

The hearings at which appellant appeared were part of a Senate investigation which…