HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON CRIMINAL LAWS AND PROCEDURES OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY UNITED STATES SENATE FIRST SESSION FEBRUARY 10, 1971 PART 1 REPORT OF THE NATIONAL COMMISSION ON REFORM OF FEDERAL CRIMINAL LAWS Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON : 1971 57-588 0 COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY JAMES O. EASTLAND, Mississippi, Chairman JOHN L. MCCLELLAN, Arkansas ROMAN L. HRUSKA, Nebraska SAM J. ERVIN, JR., North Carolina HIRAM L. FONG, Hawaii PHILIP A. HART, Michigan HUGH SCOTT, Pennsylvania EDWARD M. KENNEDY, Massachusetts STROM THURMOND, South Carolina BIRCH BAYH, Indiana MARLOW W. COOK, Kentucky QUENTIN N. BURDICK, North Dakota CHARLES MCC. MATHIAS, JR., Maryland ROBERT C. BYRD, West Virginia EDWARD J. GURNEY, Florida JOHN V. TUNNEY, California SUBCOMMITTEE ON CRIMINAL LAWS AND PROCEDURES JOHN L. MCCLELLAN, Arkansas, Chairman SAM J. ERVIN, JR., North Carolina ROMAN L. HRUSKA, Nebraska PHILIP A. HART, Michigan HUGH SCOTT, Pennsylvania JAMES O. EASTLAND, Mississippi STROM THURMOND, South Carolina EDWARD M. KENNEDY, Massachusetts MARLOW W. COOK, Kentucky ROBERT C. BYRD, West Virginia G. ROBERT BLAKEY, Chief Counsel TABLE OF CONTENTS 94 Page Brown, Hon. Edmund G., Chairman, National Commission on Re- form of Federal Criminal Laws. Green, Richard A., Deputy Director, National Commission on Re- form of Federal Criminal Laws.---.. Liebmann, George W., attorney at law, Baltimore, Md.----- 113 Donald Santarelli and Wallace Johnson, Associate Deputy At- torneys General. ------ Poff, Hon. Richard H., Vice Chairman, National Commission on ----------- Reform of Federal Criminal Laws.. Schwartz, Louis B., Director, National Commission on Reform of Ervin, Hon. Sam J., a United States Senator from the State of North Taronna.--------------------------------------------------- “Chartering A National Police Force", George W. Liebmann, ABA "Chartering A National Police Force, George W. Liebmann, ABA Final Report of the National Commission on Reform of Federal Memorandum, “Reform of Federal Criminal Laws," to Sen. Hruska from Malcolm Hawk, minority counsel of the subcommittee, Memorandum, “ 'Federal Jurisdiction' under the Proposed Code,” to Sen. McClellan from Robert Blakey, chief counsel of the sub- committee, February 10, 1971.------ Memorandum from the Attorney General to heads of Divisions, Bu- reaus and Offices in the Department of Justice, “Departmental Re- view of Proposed Revisions in the United States Criminal Code," National Association of Attorneys General, resolution and report on the study draft of a new Federal Code.. Schwartz, ABA Journal, September 1970. ... "Offenses Redefined Under' Proposed Federal Criminal Code." Edmund G. Brown and Louis B. Schwartz, ABA Journal, Decem- "Sentencing Under the Draft Federal Criminal Code." Edmund G. Brown and Louis B. Schwartz, ABA Journal, October 1970.-- Statement by the President on "Report of the National Commission on Reform on Federal Criminal Laws," and the President's Memo- randum to the Attorney General directing action, January 17, "The Challenge of a Modern Federal Criminal Code," statement in the |