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FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63) _ . . . . . - ¢ } ; . . i . } [a Tolson._—_—— x - j Me. Mabr—— / - Fol SD eee tt (Mount Clipping in Space Below) i y [Leen Testifies in Sobol Case fo imran Cet ae I Promgbnsal’s last witness - Didn't Know Lawyer Not| with Judge Leon about an ap- ee Leander H. PéFéz Jr.,' Mr 4 who teSlified that in his opinion tlie, Duncan case did not involve sivit ‘rights and “‘as far as ’m goncerned we have never had a Licensed, He Says ~ {Peal for Gary Duncan, a Negro 7 —_—— 7 client who had been convicted _ Judge Eugene E. Leon of Pla-jof simple battery. AY iquemines Parish testified Mon-} During the course of the tri day in federal court that when| Alvin Bronstein, attorney £c¢" jhe was first introduced to Wash-| Sobol, and Owen M. Fiss; an jington off rights attorney Rich-\attorney for the United ‘States jard B. Sobol nothing was caldJjustice Department, haye ‘tovIidicate that the attorney/sought to show that there is'a ws not Yeensed to practice! need for out-of-state attorneys w in Louisiana. ‘who will le affirmative - The judge was one of the last! civil rights cases because Lou-/ Judge jieon., He said that he witnesses. called to the standjisiana’s white attorneys genel-l seq his assistant, Darryl Bu- SECTION 1 re Sidney W. Provensal Jr., at-|ally will not take such caseS| bi7 1) see the ee t | . torney for the defense in a case'and Negroes and others en ; ‘brought by Sobol seeking tol gaged in civil rights work hav | Provensal ‘offered the ‘testi- TIMES PICAYUNE ‘block his prosecution on alittle confidence in most white jmony of Judge Leon and the Pele, Room Ay @alss 3) tues iJ . . . YY Yo Miles Caundy—— 3 é Undicate page, mune of == newspaper, city and state.) Under questioning by Porven- the district attorney claimed that he never heard about Dun- can until Jan, 25, 1967, the day the case was being tried before _..-—C*PAGE'Cs«#G recharge of practicing law with- attorneys. aa ag tlyounger Perez “to supplement rout a license. = The case is beirg rH cstinvony they. a. —— NEW ORLEANS, LA. Sobol is also attacking the| Judge Robert A. Ainsworts Jr. testimony .they—have already constitutionality of the Louisi-|of the U.S. Fifth Circuit-Golrt wih Sy way ‘ef Sepésitions. ana statute regulating the prac-/of Appeals and District Judges ATTORNEYS CALLED — tice of law by out-of-state at-| Frederick J. R. Heebe and Fred farlier in the day Provensal hj a) / a7 / : torneys. : J. Cassibry. tealied seven attorneys fo the 14 fee : During the day's proceedings) CHIEF STAFF COUNSEL =~ | potETe-alled 14 witnesses! Sobol is chief staff counsel for "S424 and each testified sub- lon behalf of his clients, Judge/the Lawyers Constitutional De- Stantially that they would rep- Leon, segregationist leader Le-|fense Committee, an organiza- resent Negroes in criminal ander H. Perez Sr., and Plaque-|tion handling. civil rights litiga.eases-and urge all possible con- mines district attorney Leander)tion mainly in the Southeastern stitutional defenses. They as- {H..Perez Jr. States. ; oe TWO MORE TO CALL ~ | Judge Leon testified’ that be-|Serled that they would do the | Provensal told the court that} fore the federal court suit was) S2me if the cases arose out of 2-6-68 | he has two additional witnesses! filed against him he had never civil rights activities. Date: to call Tuesday who were not:heard of the LCDC and at the Cross examining these . wit-|. Edition: available Monday and will then time Sobol first appeared pend nesses, Bronstein brought out author: his case. m e Du aan Tee Louisiana State Bar As-0 idea how long the attorney these attorneys have never Editor; GEORGE W. HEALY gociation has intervened in the|had been in Louistana, handled what he termed af- [tines RICH agpSSoBoL matter on the side of the de-| He also told the court that no firmative civil rights cases _ oo fendants in order to defend the matter how the Present ha brought under provisions of the titutionality of the state|turns out he will recuse DIM-Iciyi] Rights Act of statute and began the presenta-|self in the event Sobol is tried Votin ey a t sie the, Character: CR tion of its case after Provensaljin Plaquemines on the unauth-|. 4 a ate . ot ot used all of his available wit-|orized practice of law suit. ‘acili re 6 7 oF pape Claasification: 4b nesses. * 7 2° | INTRODUCED TO SOBOL |" ‘The attorneys who testified in Submitting Office: N.O., LA. ‘The federal court case is an| Judge Leon told of being it-ithis way. included Edward M. jeutgeawth of Sobol’s arrest initroduced to Sobol when the Dun-\paldwin, G. Wray Gill, Nathan (1) Being Investigated [Fointe a la Hache on Feb. 21,Jcan charges were first proSe- Greenberg, Bernard Horton, Ed- 1967, after he had conferred] cuted by Robert Collins, a New ward A. Wallace, Gilbert V. An- —_—— Orleans Negro attomey. dry Til and George Ehmig. He also claimed that Duncan's} Another of Provensal’s wit- alleged altercation with tw0'nesses. was Luke Petrovich, an , WD white youths took place aboutjattorney and member of the} /(4 4 jy f 7 . f a ball mile from, the ors Plaquemines Parish Commis- = si and ¢i sion Council. . . choot is case or linked. with! REPRESENTED NEGRO OT RECORDFD chool desegregation. THe told of his appemtiment inO7|FEB 15 1968 D4 FEB20 I96