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Aen Spe a, Ath Alt at oe ee = ett iiesin THe PLAYBO. PANEL: CRISIS IN LAW ENFORCEMENT a timely debate on civil authoritarianism and its infringement on the.constitutional rights of the individual PANELISTS MELVIN M. BELU gained international no- toriety two years ago this month when he publicly denounced the Dallas death sentence for his client Jack Ruby, mur- derer of Lee Harvey Oswald, as “the shougun justice of a kangaroo court.” But Belli had already been one of the most flamboyant, contentious and able ornaments of the American bar for many vears. An embatuled defender of individual rights in hundreds of crimi- nal cases and personal-injury suits—for which he pioucered six-figure awards—he . is a champion of the underdog and an avowed cnemy of what he calls “the fascistic cop mentality.” Author of many standard texts on trial law, a frequent lecturer on courtroom procedure, a pop- ular and outspoken guest on TV dis- cussion shows and a contributor of polemical opinion pieces to various na- tonal magazines, he has also been the subject of a controversial Playboy Inter- view (June 1965). FRED COOK is the author of 11 books and hundreds of magazine articles, many of them trenchant exposts of scandals and miscarriages of justice in the fields of law enforcement and civil liberties— labors that have carned him) admirers and enemies in equal measure. Winner of the 1961 Sidney Hillman Award and three-time winner of she New York Newspaper Guild's Page One Award for his journalistic public service, he made the bestseller lists in L964 with The FBI Nobody Knows, a hard-hitting documen- tary cye opener that punctured the pop- ular myth of FBI expertise in spy chasing and crime detection, and deplored both the autocratic power and the right-wing political philosophy of its hitherto sacro- sanct director, J. Edgar Hoover, FRED €. INBAU is regarded as the nation’s foremost expert on police interrogation, A) onetime practicing attorney and former director of the Chicago Police Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory, he is currently a professor of law at Northwestern University and editor-in- chief of the school’s Journal of Crim- mal Law, Criminology and Police Science. Widely respected in police cir- cles for his many authoritative articles and books on scientific and psychological = Methods of questioning criminal suspects, he is best known for his co-authorship of GEORGE N. LEIGHTON, judge of the Circuit Court, Criminal Division, of Cook County (Chicago), Illinois. since 1964, has a long history of winning and making controversial decisions. In addition to nu- merous civil rights victories as a defense attorney in’ Southern courts, Leighton won freedom in 195% for «an Illinois con- vict after 17 years of imprisonment for a crime he didu’t commit and. in a widely publicized eleventh-hour rescue, saved a condemned convict from execution in 1963. Even more celebrated was his un- precedented exoneration last year of two Puerto Rican boys charged with attack- ing two off-duty Chicago policemen with broken beer bottles and putting one of them in the hospital with multiple slashes on the face. His decision was based on evidence that the boys acted in self- defense when one of the policemen used excessive force in making an improper arrest—against which the citizen has a right to defend himself. . bs JOSEPH D. LOHMAN, dean of the Schiol of Criminology on the Berkeley campus of the University of California, brings to the academic world a wealth of practical experience in law enforcement: as the former chairman of the Parole and Par- don Board of Ilinois, onetime sheriff of Cook County, Illinois, and founder of the Southern Police Institute in Louis- ville, Kentucky. He is also a member of the Presiceiit’s Commitiee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime, and a consultant to police departments in Chi- cago, Denver, Louisville, St. Paul, Wash- ington, Pittsburgh and New Orleans. JOHN PEMBERTON, JR, is the nations] executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, the most militant pri- vate agency dedicated to the protection of individual rights against encroach. ment by authoritarian power. Among its many legal bates on behalf of minority groups and unpopular causes. the ACLU has even fought for the right of arch- reactionary right-wing groups to en- joy the constitutional privilege of free assembly at meetings where the ACLU itself! has been condemned as a branch of the Communist Party—which it em- phatically isn’t, though it has often fought just as hard to safeguard the same right for American Reds. Pemberton is accustomed to contumely from every fr est e BELLE: Peephole surveillance is utterly and completely abhorent. totally im- permissible. It's far more immoral than the immoralities it seeks to eliminate. RusTIN: No police are going to stop and frisk well-dressed bankers on Wall Street, but they don't hesitate to stop well- dressed Negro businessmen in Harlem. TURNER: J's a known fact that traffic cops work ona quota system of arrests, expressed or implied. 1s not so well known, but so do criminal investigators. te teens men aed