Clarence Charles Newcomer

Clarence Charles Newcomer (January 18, 1923 – August 22, 2005) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania for more than 33 years.

Education and career

Newcomer was born in Mount Joy, Pennsylvania, to Clarence S. and Clara Charles Newcomer. He graduated from Mount Joy High School in 1941.

Newcomer entered the V-12 Navy College Training Program, and was a United States Naval Reserve Lieutenant of an amphibious landing craft in the Pacific Theater during World War II, from 1943 to 1946. He then received a Juris Doctor from Dickinson School of Law (now Pennsylvania State University - Dickinson Law) in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1948. He lived in Stone Harbor, New Jersey, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

During his career as a federal judge, Newcomer presided over a number of mob and public corruption cases.

In 1980, he ended Topps Chewing Gum's exclusive right to sell baseball cards, allowing the Fleer Corporation to compete in the market.

In 1985, Newcomer criticized the Philadelphia Police Department for indiscriminately arresting a number of Spanish-speaking people after an officer was killed, calling the arrests "unlawful" and "disgraceful".