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™.. Office Memorandum ° UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO: Mr. A.H. Betment > DATE: October 7, 1958 \sROM : W. C. ‘Sullivan Yj rs ogee SUBJECT: _CRITICIEM 0} UPREME COURT a SS ST Non eee CONCERNING =i, fe | oreo . : Tele. Room eT RSEARSE MATTER ; ~ Holloman at) Following a string of headline-raising decisions by the eee States Supreme prate reme Court, an officer of the American Bar Association aC ey) termed 1957 "a black year in law enforcement." (OM Crimdel --- ~ 10/2/58) "Milk and Honey™ _ pe) BIE Sylvester C. Smith Jr., of Newark, New Jersey, chairman of the 4 American Bar Association's House of Delegates, in Omaha to address the ; Nebraska State Bar Association, charged on October 2, 1958, that the Supreme Court “is forgetting the public right to the adminisiration of justice. *™ He declared that 1957 was a year “dominated by decisions in which the guilty criminal was _ often the fond object of the Court's doting tenderness. "Criminals, *' he added, ~ “especially . if they were Communists, found Court decisions flowing with milk ; ‘ Breakdown « of Law and Order —- an ; TR gy Despite the guarantee of the Constitution, Mr. Smith went on to fart “all indications are that law and order is breaking down." He placed some of the blame for the collapse on Supreme Court decisions and cited the examples of a convicted rapist who was set free because the police did not have him arraigned quickly enough, and of a convicted robber-rapist whose death sentence / has been held in abeyance for nine years while he continues to fire appeals at any and every court that will listen to him, In the security field, Mr. Smith referred to the Los Angeles Smith Act case where “for the first time in history the Court directed acquittal of five defendants on grounds of insufficient evidencs+- a matter previously left fe. the trial court." . EX-102 -1-'Mr. Nease nee B Ge A DEVE - 19 1 = Criminal Intelligence Unite es ee . eh 14 OCT 16 1959 ae o_o os