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in Washington, D.C., for contempt of Congress and pleaded in
his defense the First Amendment and the same points on which
Judge Weinfeld had dismissed my indictment. Federal Judge
Joseph C. MeCarraghy ruled against O'Connor on all of these
issues and found him guflty, sentencing him to a year in jafl and
imposing a fine of $500. The Judge, however, apparently recog¬
nized the moral quality of O'Connor's challenge to the McCarthy
Committee and suspended sentence on tlie prison term. O'Connor
is appealing Judge McGarraghy's contempt conviction.