Legal Opinion
Mesarosh v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided November 5, 1956No. 20PublishedCited by 343 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Warren
The decision herein passes only on the integrity of a criminal trial in the federal courts. It does not determine the guilt or innocence of the petitioners, and we do not reach other issues propounded in the lengthy briefs or which may be present in the trial record of 5,147 pages. The Solicitor General of the United States moved to remand the case to the trial court for further proceedings because of untruthful testimony given before other tribunals by Joseph D. Mazzei, a Government witness in this case. The counter-motion of petitioners asked for a new trial. The decision is based entirely…
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