Word: dickerman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...debate with New York attorney C. Dickerman Williams on the uses of the controversial constitutional guarantee, Griswold said that no blanket inference can be drawn from the use of the amendment...
Your Sept. 5 treatment of the Fifth Amendment issue was a remarkably lucid, informative and objective summary of both sides of the controversy. Lawyer [C. Dickerman] Williams' cogent arguments inject a welcome measure of common sense into an issue so muddled by smears, emotion and innuendo. Why not make such debates a regular feature...
...main line of legal precedent was restated recently by C. Dickerman Williams, a Manhattan lawyer, in an article, "Problems of the Fifth Amendment," first printed by the Fordham Law Review and now being distributed by the Fund for the Republic. Williams, onetime law clerk to Chief Justice William H. Taft, and general counsel for the Commerce Department in the Truman Administration, starts with John Marshall's 1807 ruling in the treason trial of Aaron Burr. Called as a witness was Burr's secretary, a Mr. Willie, who was asked if he had understood a cipher message purportedly written...
...whole, writes Dickerman Williams, the courts have adhered to the Marshall opinion-but this has not prevented abuses. "In recent years," says Williams, "the public has frequently read of witnesses who invoke the Fifth Amendment, particularly before congressional committees, but thereupon issue statements to the press that they are innocent of any crime . . . This practice has recently received impressive sanction in the form of an article by Dean Erwin N. Griswold of the Harvard Law School, in which he maintains that a man innocent of any crime may rightfully use the privilege when questioned concerning past membership in the Communist...
...that, Dickerman Williams replies: "Dean Griswold's statement of the basis for Smith Act prosecutions is remarkable in its apportionment of emphasis. The Smith Act forbids attempts to overthrow the Government by force. It makes no reference to the Communist Party and was, in fact, first invoked, to Communist enthusiasm, against Trotzkyites . . . Membership and office in the party are expressly declared by the Internal Security Act of 1950 not to constitute a violation of any criminal statute...