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- é a” ° + b . . __& pRoppEDFROMGROUP "||| He also’ claim this’ ef: pe reas LDC Ae onid He said tha this aa Was | | forts to fi ma Defense | spa’s. president, stating thal not have had representation in December of 1863, on Fund was Bot enable Harts 8 8! ociptionatieennot partic Be said resentanons ih following I he. was - to make fees but erely te Hor- lipate 3s it (NOLAC) is present t i from{|vide a.fund - ‘When asked about the effect that he bad been dropped vide ‘ ” — Sobol's arrest on him membership in the organization neys could receive out-of-pocket y formes. Took the position ths \Weche said, “It shook me up for bein 7 By with his dues. ” Te told. Thomas M. Brahney there are no otneh grounts * Sther efforts slonélly,, “an assistant state attorney inon-coopera han th and -LCDC law-ll these limes, Sageattorney assert: site that he wanted Os laymen the organization - ¢ the 1964 Civil otganisars Saison said that the OEO ha: ‘such regulations and that was ‘because if Mr. Sobol wasi} Relating found guilty a yers weré restricted from practicing, the .Negroes _ seek- : f : Rights Act was passed he went}i"™ TPF jay schools and dest ysten veath ~ Oe case they would be to Leon Sarpy, @ former presi: derthe bar associations in order tthe only wey: the organit unable to get Louisiana Jaw-{i dent of the Louisiana State Bar}is, iet Negroes know that white could be set up.- It is my Op- fon that the state bar does 7 want the program,” he asset’ adding that the bar cov ‘lyers to handle civil rights _jeases.” He added that it would tebe about the end” of civil ‘pram for the bar to volunteer at- EXPENSES torneys for civil rights work but “lrights work heard nothing more @ ut hist. csions, Nelson said that he [appoint 10. of fhe 21_boa: : 's at i i suggestl __"- ailhas never made @ profit on civil members. * A ;| Sobol’s attorney 1s seeking Te added that he then made to show that there are an in-f |, further efforts t involv bit has accepted ex SO expenses. | Louisiane lawyers in civil right Fe also admitt ed that he he : me realize that no lawyer ha never submitter p. Touisiana to handle a case, but T though Oe mar es of on any DIC- that the profession in Louisiana . Bar Assrrganization wn did not fulfil! what T thought to posh ty a orEeseribed on his be a responsibility to create om erect ype. tion. | ; * ‘envi t for a lawyer examination. " ranted to take one of theselj He aig gin one instance without the fantastic pres- Med That the q . cures prought on him, par-\\@ legal a gee in the Ninth ticularly the’ white lawyer, Ward a . white youths. Nelson asserted. - “Nelsorbeisittied that the LSBA SOBOBG-ASSISTANCE in answer io further question: nas refed to gooperate in the He said that Sobol’s assistance ing by Bronstein, Nelson voiced—l| operation’ of the New Orleans was obtained by his mother and the opinion, based on what helipegal Assistance. Corporation, _ father and that he never intend- said were discussions with Neg an organization set up under auspices of the Office of Eco- “(ot the average Negro in the state has no fidence in os 2 4 a ry . 2 . merits ot is c stay away has abdicated any leadership in from white lawyers when civil] quest for equality.” rights issues are ~ He told the court that in his vsnsqonld deter other}i2° vely opposed NOLAC but is ko onl handling) "t cooperating. fm i SIX LAYMEN ON BOARD | Asked by. Sessions if this is not because the organization is under lay control, Nelson re- lied that as‘a matter of fact me te plead guilty.” - ~ Dunean’s conviction is now on ‘lappeal before the United States Supreme Court. - During his morning testimony Nelson told of his efforts to or-|, torneys in the South to act in- dependently without influence from any organization. — { y He asserted, on questioning by Bronstein, that it was his idea board to subsidize those attorneys who wanted to handle civil rights cases’ with- out interference from outside ization develop a symposium for attorneys to discuss “direct action and passize—sesistance” which he termed civil rights) action. Questioned under cross exam-|F nation by Provensal, the attor-| lay control, having six laymen Iney admitted B?*he has been lireated cordially when he prac- itices jn Plaquemines and that white attorneys in the New Or- ‘eans area will raise all consti- Negro clients. Fourteenth Amendmen 7 tutional questions in defense of the organization is not: under out of 21 members on the board of directors. ~~ ‘Nelson charged that the idea of lay people on the board is “a cloak” the LSBA is using.” Sessions sought to show that in his evaluation Nelson has But he added, “I do not know not taken into consideration any ‘that they will taise issues of of the legal limitations on the wn-ss it regards the LSBA’s -ability to. things. = wee “The bar iation’s attor- hey * aden’ Tato “evidence a let- :ter from John Pat Little, the do certain: