DEPOSITED BY THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA JUL 6 42 FOREWORD This Report is made and distributed pursuant to action of the Judicial Conference of Senior Circuit Judges, stated in the Report of its September Session, 1941, as follows: "Federal indeterminate sentence law.-At its October 1940 session the Conference recommended passage of an indeterminate sentence law for the Federal courts. In some circuits the judicial conferences subsequently expressed opposition to the proposed bill. The Conference therefore resolved: That in view of the objections made by several circuit conferences to the indeterminate sentence bill approved by this Conference last year, it is the sense of the Conference that a further study should be made of the indeterminate sentence, the objections of the district judges thereto, and the general subject of punishment for crime, including the treatment of youthful offenders; and that to that end the Chief Justice appoint a committee of circuit and district judges to study the matter fully and make report as soon as possible to the end that the same may be considered by the various circuit conferences and that the views of such conferences, together with the report of the committee, may be considered by this Conference at its next annual meeting. The Committee appointed to study these questions consists of Judge Parker, chairman, Judges Hand and Phillips, and District Judges Carroll C. Hincks, John C. Collet, Paul J. McCormick and Bolitha J. Laws.” (III) zk. Draft of an Act Recommended by the Committee to Provide a Cor- Draft of an Act Recommended by the Committee to Provide for Waiver of Indictment and Waiver of Trial by Jury in Criminal Report of the Subcommittee on Sentencing of Adult Offenders_ Report of the Subcommittee on Treatment of Youthful Offenders---- 81 |