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Article: Lattimore & Wicker. (Owen Lattimore, Tom Wicker) (column)
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- National Review
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- August 18, 1989
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TOM WICKER'S exoneration of Owen Lattimore rests on tbe simple fact that the indictment of him for perjury was overthrown by federal judge Luther Youngdahl. He quotes Judge Youngdahl as saying that the perjury charges against Lattimore were "so formless and obscure" that to bring him to trial on them would make "a sham of the Sixth Amendment." That's the amendment that confirms the rights of defendants.
Here is what Wicker does not tell his readers: 1) In 1953, Judge Youngdahl threw out four of the seven perjury counts handed down by a grand jury against Lattimore. 2) The Court of Appeals ordered the reinstatement of two of the four. 3) The government moved ...
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