United States v. Sidney Stein

The defendant was a fugitive for over two years, with widespread newspaper publicity concerning his flight; when apprehended in 1953 he was harboring one Robert G. Thompson, a fugitive from a Smith Act conviction. 18 U.S. C. § 2385. Obviously he is not the best of risks for bail, as the able opinion of Judge Herlands shows. D.C.S.D.N. Y., 18 F.R.D. 248. But there seem, if anything, special reasons for even-handed justice in these Smith Act prosecutions, see Stack v. Boyle, 342 U.S. 1, 5, 6, 9, 10, 72 S.Ct. 1, 96 L.Ed. 3; and we should not go beyond normal bounds, 1 as we really feel the very…