In re Taran
Decision Date | 30 September 1943 |
Citation | 52 F. Supp. 535 |
Parties | In re TARAN. |
Court | U.S. District Court — District of Minnesota |
Lewis L. Drill, of St. Paul, Minn., for petitioner.
Victor E. Anderson, U. S. Atty., and William P. Murphy, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of St. Paul, Minn., for the United States.
A motion was presented to this court July 2, 1943, for an order striking certain language from the record made herein on July 15, 1942, denying a petition for naturalization. The petition in this proceeding, supported by two witnesses as usual, was filed August 18, 1941, under Section 310(a) of the Nationality Act of 1940, 54 Stat. 1144, 8 U.S.C.A. § 710(a). The motion is to strike from the "decision, order or judgment" of the Court, the following: "with prejudice for a period of five years."
The record in question in the office of the Clerk follows:
Section 307 of the Nationality Code, 8 U.S.C.A. § 707(a), provides: "No person, except as hereinafter provided in this chapter, shall be naturalized unless such petitioner, (1) immediately preceding the date of filing petition for naturalization has resided continuously within the United States for at least five years and within the State in which the petitioner resided at the time of filing the petition for at least six months, (2) has resided continuously within the United States from the date of the petition up to the time of admission to citizenship, and (3) during all the periods referred to in this subsection has been and still is a person of good moral character, attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the United States."
Section 310 of the Code, 8 U.S.C.A. § 710 (a) (1) (2), provides:
Samuel Harry Taran, formerly Schmiel Taran, the petitioner, was born June 15, 1898, in Ivnica, Russia, and emigrated from Bremen, Germany, to the United States entering at Galveston, Texas, June 21, 1912. He married a citizen of the United States June 5, 1933, and has three children.
It is unnecessary to speculate as to whether the petitioner "has been and still is a person of good moral character, attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the United States." The records of the courts and police departments of Minneapolis, St. Paul and other cities reveal his conduct for a period of twenty years and obviously furnish conclusive proof of the character and inclinations of the man:
The petitioner was indicted February 18, 1936, in the District Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota on four counts charging a violation of Section 3281, R.S., 18 Stat. 310, 26 U.S.C.A. Int.Rev. Code, § 3253, Section 3296 R.S., 19 Stat. 393, as amended, 26 U.S.C.A. Int.Rev.Code, § 2913 and the Liquor Taxing Act of 1934, 26 U.S.C.A. Int.Rev.Code, § 2803(a), felonies. He was tried before a jury, found guilty and on May 25, 1936, sentenced to the Minneapolis City Work House for one year on each of four counts, to run concurrently, and to pay a fine of $200 on each of three counts. Taran v. United States, 8 Cir., 88 F.2d 54. He was released from the service of these sentences on February 1, 1938, The petition was filed herein approximately 3½ years and presented to the Court approximately 4½ years after the petitioner was released from prison.
The petitioner was indicted and convicted by a jury in the District Court of Hennepin County, Minnesota, in 1927 on a charge of grand larceny in the first degree and sentenced to the State Penitentiary for a term of ten years. He appealed to the Supreme Court where the judgment was affirmed on January 4, 1929, 176 Minn. 175, 222 N.W. 906, 908. In affirming the judgment the Court said: "* * * the verdict is well supported by the evidence." The petitioner served three years and two months in the State Penitentiary at Stillwater and was paroled March 1, 1932.
The petitioner was charged with assault in the second degree in Hennepin County, Minnesota, January 25, 1926, convicted and sentenced to serve six months in the Minneapolis Work House.
The petitioner was indicted in the District Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota, December 8, 1925, with four co-defendants on two counts, one charging a conspiracy and the other illegal possession of a still. One of the co-defendants was tried, convicted and sentenced to serve two years in the penitentiary. The case against the petitioner herein was dismissed November 17, 1929.
The petitioner was indicted with eleven co-defendants in the District Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota September 24, 1927, in an indictment containing three counts charging a violation of Section 37 of the Criminal Code, 18 U.S.C.A. § 88, Sections 3258 and 3282 R.S., 26 U.S.C.A. Int.Rev.Code, §§ 2810, 2834. Some of these defendants entered a plea of guilty but the case was dismissed as to the petitioner herein November 14, 1929.
The petitioner in April, 1920, was charged with grand larceny, theft of an automobile, tried and found not guilty in the District Court of Hennepin County, Minnesota.
The petitioner was fined $100 in Minneapolis August 8, 1921, on a liquor law violation.
The petitioner was fined $10 in Minneapolis January 12, 1922, for assault and battery.
The petitioner was charged with grand larceny, theft of an automobile in Hennepin County, Minnesota, August 9, 1922, tried and acquitted.
The petitioner was convicted of grand larceny, Minneapolis, in March, 1924, and sentenced to serve a term of thirty days in the Minneapolis Work House.
In December, 1925, the petitioner was involved in a "high-jacking fight" in an apartment in St. Paul in which he was shot and wounded. In this connection he was charged with assault in the second degree, tried and acquitted.
The petitioner was tried on a charge of assault and battery, St. Paul, and acquitted February 3, 1934.
The records of the police departments of Minneapolis and St. Paul show more than twenty arrests of the petitioner from September 5, 1918, to February 3, 1934, on various charges including theft of automobiles, receiving stolen property, illegal possession of liquor, assault, perjury, and for investigation in connection with bank robbery. Some modest fines were paid by the petitioner; but, it must be said, that in most instances he escaped conviction or even prosecution.
In addition to the foregoing, the petitioner was indicted in 1934 at Chicago, Illinois, on charges of conspiracy and possession of stolen bonds. About the same time he was wanted in Nebraska and Kansas in connection with bank robberies, but he successfully resisted extradition.
An arrest not followed by conviction ordinarily may not be shown, but the strict rules of evidence are not applied in naturalization hearings. Petition of Nybo, D.C., 34 F.2d 161.
Mrs. Florence Taran was divorced from her husband, Samuel Harry Taran, in the District Court of Ramsey County, Minnesota, on April 20, 1933, and he was married a second time to Diane Lomberg of Chicago June 5, 1933.
The petitioner was denied citizenship in the District Court...
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