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Melvin Belli — Part 5
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. 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:
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tk ‘remarks ‘to the newly ‘formed . .
12: ‘Criminal Law Section of the .
"3 merican Trial | Laivyers. -in
24 |
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‘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.:"
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