Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-10-16 | Page 4 | 'G' Men Defend Wire Tapping

6 60 MEN DEFEND IRE V TAPPING v WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Oct 16 INS INS INS- The department of justice in a brief on file In the supreme court today strongly opposes reopening of the question of constitutionality o of wire tapping The issue which aroused national c controversy during prohibition days was thrust forward again when Morris forris protested he ho was convicted partly on evidence obtained obtained ob ob- tamed by tapping telephone wires But Solicitor General Stanley Reed Heed and Brien McMahon assistant assistant assistant assist assist- ant attorney general contended the court has decreed wire tapping a apart apart apart part of the general law of the the- land Jand Renko who was convicted in federal court in New v York of possessing possessing possessing pos pos- stolen bonds after of f Italian bonds were stolen three years years ago has petitioned for a writ of ot r review view He urged the court to reopen the Olmstead case in which it by a 5 to 4 decision during the prohibition prohibition prohibition tion era held wire tapping legal In a dissenting opinion Justice Brandeis characterized wire tapping as ag dirty business Renko's s attorney David P. P Siegel Sie- Sie gel said that the original decision was handed down when organized gangs were violating the prohibition prohibition prohibition tion law Jaw on a national scale