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    Fairness of the Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

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    In four pages this paper argues that the trial Julius and Ethel Rosenberg received after being charged with espionage was fair and not in any way colored by either anti Semitic sentiments or politics. Six sources are cited in the bibliography.

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    your hearts, with your minds...I say that if you do that, you can come to no other conclusion than that these defendants are innocent and you are going to show  to the world that in America a man can get a fair trial" ("Summation," 2003). The jury was left with those stunning words and the hint that somehow, the trial  might be tainted. Were the defendants fated to a verdict of guilty because they were Jewish? Was there something wrong with the system to render a verdict other than not  guilty? These are questions that their attorney wanted jurors to wonder. In the end, the jurors would solemnly return with guilty verdicts and the sentence for the Rosenbergs would be  death. In retrospect, despite the Rosenbergs Jewish and communist roots they did receive a fair trial. The trial of the Rosenbergs would ensue and was held in March of 1951,  where the couple, along with co-conspirator Morton Sobell, had been found guilty of conspiracy to commit espionage, as they passed on atomic secrets to the Soviet Union during the early  1940s ("ABA," 1993). The trial would yield a guilty verdict in this capital case and the Rosenbergs were eventually executed. Eisenhower had been asked to commute the sentence but he  refused. He said: "I am convinced that ...the Rosenbergs have received the benefit of every safeguard which American justice can provide. There is no question in my mind that their  original trial and the long series of appeals constitute the fullest measure of justice and due process of law....no judge has ever expressed any doubt that they committed most serious  acts of espionage" ("114 Statement," 2001,p.PG). Most people, along with the sitting president, believe in their guilt or at least that the trial was fair. However, just as many people 

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