Hoffa v. United States

Over a period of several weeks in the late autumn of 1962 there took place in a federal court in Nashville, Tennessee, a trial by jury in which James Hoffa was charged with violating a provision of the Taft-Hartley Act. That trial, known in the present record as the Test Fleet trial, ended with a hung jury. The petitioners now before us — James Hoffa, Thomas Parks, Larry Campbell, and Ewing King — were tried and convicted *295in 1964 for endeavoring to bribe members of that jury.1 The convictions were affirmed by the Court of Appeals.2 A substantial element in the Government’s proof that led to…