United States v. Weinberger

CLARK, District Judge.

This opinion and the appropriate order writes the last New Jersey chapter of a story which has not, in our judgment, been much of an advertisement for Jersey or any other sort of justice. The acts, whose repetition the courts are asked to deter by appropriate punishment, occurred in 1928. The intervening five years have been occupied by more or less constant efforts to apportion the responsibility therefor. How successful these endeavors have been will appear in the course of this opinion.

Our discussion may be and therefore is addressed to answering three questions:…