Garland L. Alderman

Released
Gender:Male
Era:1940s
State:Michigan
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Biography

Garland L. Alderman was a Detroit political organizer associated with the National Workers League and a Michigan America First chapter. He worked with E. J. Parker Sage. Contemporary reporting connected their organization with opposition to the Sojourner Truth housing project for Black workers in 1942. He was named in the January 3, 1944 Washington indictment alleging conspiracy to undermine military loyalty under the Smith Act. The mass trial ended in a mistrial on December 7, 1944. The indictment was dismissed in December 1946; no conviction resulted in this case.

Case

Charges: Washington sedition prosecution: conspiracy under former 18 U.S.C. § 11 to violate the Smith Act’s military-insubordination provision, former 18 U.S.C. § 9.
Sentence: No sentence imposed in the Washington Smith Act prosecution. Individual custody duration is not established; separate criminal convictions are not counted as Smith Act imprisonment. The February28,1944 opinion, United States v.McWilliams,54F.Supp.791, individually lists Alderman through counsel Harry A.Grant and identifies O’John Rogge and Joseph W.Burns as the government attorneys. This pretrial ruling does not establish his custody admission or release. Source: https://case-law.vlex.com/vid/united-states-v-mcwilliams-886698831
Prosecutor: O’John Rogge; Joseph W. Burns
Judge: Edward C. Eicher; Bolitha J. Laws (dismissal proceedings)
Indicted: January 3, 1944 superseding indictment naming thirty defendants.
Convicted: No

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