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Lf” | © en . | On ccrwaai? ME LET TO LIRECTS hele 2: . [ GHD Neshvitie ana indtcatea that the Judge desired to ta to him concerning a casa pending before his court. When SA reported to Judge DA.1I-St office the Judge appeared to be ina eras ' Cordial and rather joking mood, After a short conversation concerning the case, the Sgent Started to leave and ths Judge mcetioned for 28: him to keep his seat and indicated he wanted to talk to hima little sy While longer, Judge DAVIES then ‘indicated that he had been advised that. the FBI had been checking on th courtls docket concerning delinguent case &énd cases which the court had not handled, and he asked if the FBI had = bil Joined. with Congressman ALBERT GORE in the investigation of him. He 92 stated that he felt he had always hendled criminal cas by the FBI fairly exneditiously. Although he indicated th the statements in & joking manner, it was obvious to Agent that he was curious concerning the reagon for the checking o C) ae | Present during this mwas Assistant U. S, Attornéy: DICK JOHNSON, Nashville. cont lll os 03 Judge DAVIES that the . check was mace purely as an adminisciravive measure for this office and -- & check had not been made of the entire docket but of cur cases and to determine the num:er o: cases which had reached tHe stage or vrosecue tion. He was further tdvised that there wes no political motive whatso- ever in the checkin: of the docket and it was only done on the instrues tions of the SAC. Mr. JOHNSON then interrupted. and e2~pluined that he h had been aware that the #BI had been checking the docket and that we scnaass had checked a number of files and records in his office in connection. Ss" With: aaingenaction Ween tas: beingseondusted.1n-the. Memphis .,0ff4 09 -catig%e by Insnectors outof Washington. Judre DAVIES was apparently satisfied — with. this explanation. . ; I would like to point this out to advise the Fureau of the - ———-=-- $ensitiveness of the situation. Ihave been advised that the recommene. dation for a Judze for the Middle District of Tennessee has been approvec by the House Judictary Committee, and in all probability a Judge will : ceed be appointed on a permanent basis in the Middle District of Tennessee by: ee summer. In view of this and the possibility of relief in the Middle! Dy District of Tennessee, it is recommended that no contact be had with the Department concerning relief or the assignment of visiting Judges at this -I would like to point out that Judge EOYD, Western Judicial District of Tennessee, advised me recently that he had teen contacted _. by the Circuit Court in Cincinnati and requested to spend a portion of "his time on the bench in the Middle District of Tennessee. He advised the Circuit Court that the oressure of his business in the Western District of Tennessee was a full-time job, and that he would only sacrifice the current condition of his own docket to sit on the bench for Judge DAVIES while Judge DAVIES was vacationing in Florida, and he did not feel that t# 1 was right for him to make this sacrifice,