Legal Opinion
Von Moltke v. Gillies
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 19, 1948No. 73PublishedCited by 1,531 opinions
1Judgment of the CourtJustice Black
The petitioner was indicted for conspiracy to violate the Espionage Act of 1917.1 The specific charge was that, in order to injure the United States and to aid the German Reich, she and twenty-three others had conspired during the second World War to collect and deliver vital military information to German agents.
With no money to hire a lawyer and without the benefit of counsel the petitioner appeared before a federal district judge, told him that the indictment had been explained to her, signed a paper stating that she waived the “right to be represented by counsel at the trial of this…
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