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  If there’s a government in the universe, in which no citizen was ever wrongly imprisoned or executed, it’s not on our planet. Not yet. That’s why there are innumerable civil rights organizations, some devoted to fair trials in general, others to specific cases. We – the National Committee to Reopen the Rosenberg Case (NCRRC) – is one of those that has devoted years of research and advocacy to a single case – the trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and Morton Sobell. Some people regard most specific cases as “lost causes”. Actually, many decades after their flawed trials took place, four of the most famous “lost causes” in American history eventually achieved a measure of justice. In all four cases, their trials were initially declared to have been beyond reproach. The first was a case of anti-Semitism, when Leo Frank, a Georgia factory supervisor, was convicted and sentenced to death in 1913 for murdering a 13-year girl, according to the [...]