This week the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the appeal filed by Alger Hiss, thus, in effect, affirmed the judgment of the lower courts in the dramatic Hiss-Chambers case. Hiss has two weeks within which to ask the Supreme Court to reconsider (which the Court is not likely to do). Succeeding steps: the circuit court of appeals (which has already affirmed his conviction) orders the trial court to carry out judgment—five years in prison for perjury.
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