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& Fe “A PHONE EM 8-0421 . é 2 ee, ; SALES AND SERVICE SPECIALIZING IN REBUILDING GRAND PIANOS. EXPERIENCE IN THREE FACTORIES e 7 Cc DALLAS 5. July 16, 1962, Federal Bureau Of Investigation Washington, De Ce Dear Mr. Hoover: I for one appreciate your efforts in law enforcement. It seems that every time you report, crime has increased. It is time the tide of erime should go the other waye In my opinion, © proceedure and criminal laws should be reformed, To begin with the reme Court, some years ago an English statesman said our Supreme Court was an uhneccessary luxury and should be abolished. He may have been right. I do not thihk the President should be allmred to appoint those Judges, as most of them are appointed for political reasons, The American Bar Association knows who among them are qualified. Let them select three for consideration, then a Senate Committee should investigate them and recommend one one for the appointment, The same proceedure could be e emp leyed for all Federal Judges. The Supreme Court often renders a decision, which is proof that about half of them do not understand the Constitution. On the matter of State Courts, Lawywers have had too mch to say in framing the criminal laws, It is too easy to get a new trial, reversal or appeal, Everytime this is done, one or more lawyers have their hands out, At the same time, it means more expense to the State. For instance consider the Chessman case in California. jy - rig Me 8 “arse r- I think all Courts should be equal. fe dete Bar could select a dozen qualified men among them to review Court proceedure and it should not be generally mown who they are, to avoid any attempt toward bribery. When a criminal is tried in State Court, a transcript of the proceedings should be made and a copy sent to three of these men for revisw,andift. two of them say the criminal had a fair trial, no appeal should be granted. ‘Ss JUL 24 Juries should not be able to name the penalty for a criminal, but only "962 to say if he is guilty, perhaps sometimes with extenuating cirewmetances, then let the Judge say what the penalty should be. \ Juries are sometimes too "chicken hearted" and do not like to apply A | the daeth penalty. Since the criminals are gaining on us, the deat penalty should be applied ten times more than it is. PP CORRE of A Pardon the lenrth of this, I just wanted to have my sey. 2 bb 67 “ilgili wv?