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HOFFA v. UNITED STATES

No. 32.

385 U.S. 293 (1966)

87 S.Ct. 408

17 L.Ed.2d 374

HOFFA v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 12, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph A. Fanelli argued the cause for petitioners in all cases. With him on the briefs were Morris A. Shenker, Daniel B. Maher, Jacques M. Schiffer, Cecil D. Branstetter, P. D. Maktos and Harold E. Brown.

Assistant Attorney General Vinson and Nathan Lewin argued the cause for the United States in all cases. With them on the brief were Solicitor General Marshall and Philip R. Monahan.

Briefs of amici curiae, urging reversal in No. 32, were filed by Morris Lavine for the Criminal Courts Bar Association of Los Angeles County, and by Osmond K. Fraenkel for the American Civil Liberties Union.

MR. JUSTICE STEWART delivered the opinion of the Court.

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...

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