Today in Supreme Court History: July 29, 1942

7/29/1942: Supreme Court hears oral argument in Ex Parte Quirin.

The Stone Court (1942)

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[The Margrave of Azilia]

The case of the Nazi saboteurs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5rRZdiu1UE

[Dan Schiavetta]

Times-Picayune Publishing Corp. v. Schulingkamp, 419 U.S. 1301 (decided July 29, 1974): Powell stays trial judge's prior restraint order prohibiting publication of pretrial testimony; order was to stay in effect until the end of the trial, the purpose being to prevent jury being swayed by what they read in the papers. Powell's opinion briefly reviews Court decisions weighing the right to a public trial (First and Sixth Amendments) versus the right to an impartial jury (Sixth). Defendant, age 17 at the time and black, was accused of raping and murdering a white nurse, and Powell notes that some of the reporting was "irresponsible". However he noted no "imminent threat" to a fair trial. (Defendant was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment; while in prison he was put on trial again for armed robbery and sentenced to 99 years. See 329 So.2d 728.)

[Frank Drackman]

Defendant born to early and in the wrong state (Louisiana not only had an Electric Chair (like every southern state except those Progressives in Mississippi and North Carolina with the more "humane" Gas Chamber) but a Portable/Traveling Electric Chair in the 40's when Executions had to be performed in the Country where the crime occured (see Francis v Resweber)https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/329/459/

Today and in New Yawk, California be let out without bail, wait a minute.....heck, at age 16, not even be put in jail

Frank