by KYW's Karin Phillips

A New York judge is to decide on Tuesday on whether to release more sealed grand jury documents involving the 1950's Rosenberg spy case. A local expert was awaiting the decision.
 
Dr. Katherine Sibley, chair and professor of history at St. Joseph's University, is also part of the National Security Archives, a non-profit group of scholars and historians who petitioned Federal District Court in Manhattan to release most of the secret grand jury testimony involving the Ethel and Julius Rosenberg spy case.

Dr. Sibley says the case is still controversial and she says she hopes the documents will clarify Ethel's role in the case:

"For myself, I'm interested in how she was seen as a mother involved in espionage, a mother of two boys, a housewife, yet someone who was put to death. And this is not something that our government has ever done easily."

Any documents released will be posted on the National Security Archives website sometime next month.