Saypol Trial: Disloyalty To The United States

who was the main United States Government Prosecution Lawyer. He started the trial defining conspiracy (58). Saypol defines it as “an agreement between two or more people to violate the law-in this case ‘espionage on behalf of a foreign power’”. Basically Saypol is implying that the defendants are not loyal to the United States, that they are more loyal to communism. Through the entire trial, Saypol kept mentioning the biggest issue for the Rosenberg’s helping the Soviet Union at the “expense of disloyalty to the United States”. So Saypol is referring that Julius had told Sobell, Yakovlev, Greenglass, and Ethel to get all the information they could from the Army, Navy, and other defensive camps throughout the United States. More in depth in

After hearing this Emanuel Bloch, who is Julius’ attorney said that the trial basically had no legal effect because all of the errors during their spying process. Continuing with his statement, Bloch says Saypol’s opening statement is “inflammatory, that it raised exaggerated emotional responses. Bloch also tried to say that there was no communism even relevant to the case. The judge, who is Irving R. Kaufman, called a mistrial and the trial had to continue. After the trial continued there was a total of twenty-two witnesses who were called to the stand against the defendants (59). The government presented these witnesses. The major effects of this trial that caused harm to the Rosenberg’s were all of the testimonies from David and his wife Ruth Greenglass, Harry Gold and Max Elitcher (59-60). All the evidence that was presented from the four testimonies is related to the “alleged crime of conspiracy”

They have been found guilty of conspiring with intent and reason to believe that it would be to the advantage of a foreign power, to deliver to the agents of the foreign power certain highly secret atomic information relating to the national defense of the United States. The nature of the crime for which they have been found guilty and sentenced far exceeds that of the taking of the life of another citizen; it involves the deliberate betrayal of the entire nation and could very well result in the death of many, many thousands of innocent citizens. By their act these two individuals have, in fact, betrayed the cause of freedom for which free men are fighting and dying at this very hour. The courts have proved every opportunity for the submission of evidence bearing on this case. In this time-honored tradition of American justice, a freely selected jury of their fellow citizens considered the evidence in this case and rendered its judgment. All rights of appeal were exercised and the conclusion of the trial court was upheld after full judicial review, including that of the highest court in the land. I have made a careful examination into this case, and I am satisfied that the two individuals have been accorded their full measure of justice. There has been neither new evidence nor have there been mitigating circumstances which would justify altering this