Bankruptcy Administration-Continued Seminars for Referees... Costs of Administration......... Representation of Same Defendant in Two Trials.. Availability of Local Plans____. Administration of the Probation System... Proposal for a United States Corrections Service.. Residential Community Treatment Centers__ Administration of the Criminal Law... Federal Magistrates Act----. Jurisdiction of United States Commissioners. Appellate Review of Sentences.. Amnesty for First Offenders___ Other Legislation____ Commitment of Persons Acquitted on the Ground of Insanity..... Pretermission of the Terms of the Courts of Appeals.. Page 34 34 35 35 36 36 36 36 37 37 37 38 38 40 40 40 41 41 41 41 43 43 43 44 44 44 44 45 45 45 46 46 46 47 47 Report of the Proceedings of the Judicial Conference of the United States MARCH 30-31, 1967 The Judicial Conference of the United States convened on March 30, 1967 pursuant to the call of the Chief Justice of the United States issued under 28 U.S.C. 331 and continued in session on March 31. The Chief Justice presided and the following members of the Conference were present: District of Columbia Circuit: Chief Judge David L. Bazelon Judge Matthew F. McGuire, District of Columbia First Circuit: Chief Judge Bailey Aldrich Judge Francis J. W. Ford, District of Massachusetts Second Circuit: Chief Judge J. Edward Lumbard Judge Sylvester J. Ryan, Southern District of New York Third Circuit: Chief Judge Austin L. Staley Chief Judge Thomas J. Clary, Eastern District of Pennsylvania Fourth Circuit: Chief Judge Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr. Chief Judge Walter E. Hoffman, Eastern District of Virginia Fifth Circuit: Chief Judge Elbert Parr Tuttle Chief Judge Herbert W. Christenberry, Eastern District of Louisiana Sixth Circuit: Chief Judge Paul C. Weick Chief Judge Mac Swinford, Eastern District of Kentucky Seventh Circuit: Chief Judge John S. Hastings Chief Judge William J. Campbell, Northern District of Illinois (designated by the Chief Justice in place of Judge Edwin A. Robson who was unable to attend) Eighth Circuit: Chief Judge Charles J. Vogel Chief Judge Roy W. Harper, Eastern & Western Districts of Missouri Ninth Circuit: Chief Judge Richard H. Chambers Judge Albert C. Wollenberg, Northern District of California Tenth Circuit: Chief Judge Alfred P. Murrah Chief Judge Alfred A. Arraj, District of Colorado Court of Claims: Judge James R. Durfee (designated by the Chief Justice in place of Chief Judge Wilson Cowen who was unable to attend) Court of Customs and Patent Appeals: Chief Judge Eugene Worley Mr. Justice Stanley Reed, United States Supreme Court, retired; Senior Judges John Biggs, Jr., Oliver D. Hamlin, Jr., Harvey M. Johnsen, Albert B. Maris; Circuit Judges Jean S. Breitenstein, George C. Edwards, Jr., Irving R. Kaufman and Judge Theodore Levin attended all or some of the sessions. The Attorney General, Honorable Ramsey Clark, accompanied by Assistant Attorneys General John Doar and Ernest C. Friesen, Jr., attended the morning session of the first day of the Conference. Mr. Doar returned for the discussion of the report of the Committee on the Operation of the Jury System and Mr. Friesen for the report of the Committee on the Administration of the Probation System. The Attorney General addressed the Conference briefly on matters of mutual interest to the Department of Justice and the Conference. Honorable Joseph D. Tydings, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Improvements in Judicial Machinery of the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States Senate, attended the morning session of the second day of the Conference and also addressed the Conference. William T. Finley, Counsel of the Subcommittee on Improvements in Judicial Machinery of the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States Senate, and John F. Davis, Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States, attended all or some of the sessions. Warren Olney III, Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts; William E. Foley, Deputy Director; William R. Sweeney, Assistant Director; and members of the Administrative Office staff were also in attendance. JUDICIAL APPROPRIATIONS The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget, Chief Judge William J. Campbell, advised the Conference that hearings were held in February by the Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee on the Judiciary Appropriation Bill for fiscal year 1968. Judge Campbell advised that he was accompanied at the hearings by Chief Judge Lumbard and Chief Judge Tuttle who addressed remarks to the committee on the need for additional law clerks for judges of the courts of appeals and by Judge Edward A. Tamm of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia who spoke to the committee on the need for a coordinator or administrator to implement the Criminal Justice Act, particularly in the District of Columbia. SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON CONTINUING EDUCATION, RESEARCH, TRAINING AND ADMINISTRATION Mr. Justice Stanley Reed, Chairman, presented the report of the Special Commitee on Continuing Education, Research, Training and Administration. In reviewing with the Conference the reasons for the establishment of the Special Commitee, Mr. Justice Reed pointed out that over the last ten years the Conference through its standing committees has engaged in an increasing number of programs and projects, some in the nature of continuing education and training and some in the nature of research, each under the oversight of one or another of its committees, and all designed and intended to meet some pressing need for improvement in federal judicial administration. In addition, the Confernece has expressed itself as favoring numerous other programs and projects which have not been undertaken because of the lack of staff, funds and Congressional authority. In September 1966 there were no less than 24 existing or suggested programs or projects of the Conference, each under the supervision of one or another of its standing committees and all in the nature of continuing education, training or research, looking toward improvement in federal judicial administration. It was because of this situation that the Conference at its September 1966 session (Conf. Rept., p. 37) approved a resolution authorizing the establishment of the Special Committee to study the possible need for Congressional authorization for a broad program of continuing education, research, training and administration. Mr. Justice Reed stated that the Committee had held several meetings and that it had communicated with all federal judges |