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UNITED STATES v. SOBELL

142 F.Supp. 515 (1956)

UNITED STATES of America v. Morton SOBELL.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

June 20, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul W. Williams, U. S. Atty., and Robert Kirtland and Maurice N. Nessen, Asst. U. S. Attys., New York City, for the Government.

Donner, Kinoy & Perlin, New York City, Frank J. Donner, Arthur Kinoy, Marshall Perlin, New York City, Benjamin Dreyfus, San Francisco, Cal., and Luis Sanchez Ponton, Mexico City, Mexico, of counsel, for petitioner Morton Sobell.

IRVING R. KAUFMAN, District Judge.

On March 29, 1951, a jury of eleven men and one woman found Morton Sobell guilty of conspiring to commit espionage by transmitting to the Soviet Union, intended for its benefit, "documents, writings, sketches, notes and information relating to the national defense of the United States." Their verdict was returned at the end of an exhaustive trial, at which Sobell's two extremely able attorneys and the able lawyers of his codefendants...

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