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Melvin Belli — Part 5

40 pages · May 10, 2026 · Broad topic: General · Topic: Melvin Belli · 40 pages OCR'd
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see . Sen Lo " practically,.an accused man . . ‘is presumed. to be gu‘lty until _.preme Court in recent years ‘has been fulfMling roved otherwise.” “P As for a lawyer seeking duty by protecting the indi- : Jdaphotes to keep a man. vidual personal rights of all. a from jail, this - i a duty =, He warned that paralleling ‘the growth of federalism is “which every attorney ‘must “potential ‘danger of~a~police * assume in searching for what- - ever: last ditch “technicali- state resulting from.-better : ‘-ties.” S Belli said ‘that he kas seen . these same loopholes and , technicalities. save the inno- i ft me gene = eam. ce te eens: _coramunications © and. scien- ‘tific crime - : prevention facili- , é Mehette ee i eee ; | “I subscribe lo the neces- i "sity of & legal System that : ~—* ean heres thetler Wai aa ———- wile to . aps Bobby Kennedy, tu} , dling Jaws”. "He said that the: 3 BY. JOHN MeDERMOTT. - Herat Siatt Water - :4 5: °6 7 & 9. . a .0.: feats asthe opened his: tk ‘remarks ‘to the newly ‘formed . . 12: ‘Criminal Law Section of the . "3 merican Trial | Laivyers. -in 24 | ? E : ‘5 os ‘he defended the’ American 26 ‘court’ System. ‘and particular- 72> ly the U.S. Supreme Court g - against. “charges -that the | : ‘Zourts. tend to “coddic” crimi- aa 29° “hals.' 12: a ae 70 ‘He’ said one: of the reasons * a too -he doesn’t like Hoover is tat - “he has designedly, through i2 i his*high-powered pubiic rela- : z -tions organization, created tual : such :.an - image of himself rt4: ' that even’ honest American : 15 . politicans are un-American in i 36: -their {car of him and afraid _ a. ite” criticize him even though ~~~ - Ld ym _._ igthey know he is an ideologi- the forces: of -the far right, 18, cS i fascist. * ~ want to: tap my telephone,” 89 ' ‘Belli went on to say, how- he said." ° . 10 j, ever, that the principal rea-_ i They. want ‘to know what sho. * V'gon he dislikes Hoover “and: > UP saying, therefore, what ‘ - _ * | his embittered far-rightwing- I am: thinking. .I'm not a ; 42 ” | ers is because of’ their snide ‘criminal. tive ‘Sot nothing to 23 and surreptitious criticism of hide. . ae f ~ wet . ” . oy fot nut $4 the U.S. Supreme Court. vo | Belli sai a once his phone is 1S - “What the courts are doing, © tapped ‘then: “someone” will, an said Belli, is protecting the . not be satisfied with the ex-. 46 . . . “rights of the accused regard." ‘ {posure “of - his - innermost — 7 . : ‘less of who they are. -- thoughts - but will also‘ want $ s : . He said Hoover and his to “assist me in my thinking , mo ’ “adept public ‘relations men” ‘and tell “me how AL -should 49 confuse. U.S. common. law _ think: ”. wo i y 66 : 70 With French civil law “where "5.4 sald: that. “the Su. its highest ° LADD a ely RIE ee os tes hee wale t Conveniion ties such as lahoratories and radios. Belii quoted Hoover as’ saying at Chicago in 1963 j that justice’ has’ nothing» to. do with expediency .:. “the FBI will continue to be objec- tive regardless: of pressure: groups which try to usc the FBI to aitain thei own sel-, fish aims to the detriment o. _our people as a whue.’”” | > ~ Fj. Belli concluded: by saying: that there is no: need to; schange the, so-called- “2od- ~t i crime factor should .be to? ’ preserve the freedom and the’ = legal rights of the individual.:" i Pe
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