Show n n nI I WESTBROOK I Skulduggery I in the Courts AFTER A FTER Jimmy Petrillo was acquitted In federal court In Chicago 11 Fred A. A author co-author of ot the Congressman Hartley Taft Hartley labor emancipation law said he wasn't any too sure that the department of justice was leveling in this case I have been thinking the same thing about other union cases and some other department of justice jobs They are getting very careless You know what leveling means of ot course It is a poetic term from the prize fighting racket To level Is to put forth your best efforts as the fight commissioners say Lots of or times time's I have thought that the department of 01 justice didn't put forth its best efforts In cases Involving union gorillas or moving picture people or Ideological refugees There is a fact about the duty of the federal judges which few of ot us know and most of those few seldom remember A federal Judge is supposed to sniff out skulduggery done in his presence and to denounce any obvious crookedness or negligence on the part of the district attorney whether for tor benefit of ot the government or of ot the defendant I dare say there have been cases where federal judges had scolded district attorneys for tor bearing down unfairly on defendants But I challenge you to cite any allY case where a judge got disgusted and bawled out a prosecutor for willful and obvious neglect of ot the peoples people's interest and failure to do his best I say it is high time one of them did |