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myers | Harri 7 Ht r s Williams Jr. told a federal appeals oS eo - A ° neys argue case t the Abscam defendani's conviction should be ‘ ‘tuned fees ere ws ming inpope s _ be fore appeals p anel. ttings that Jed to his indictment and a PPS pe Beara’ wrens ae ah foarter 5 Nie dews D atic senator sane! of Second Cireuti appealing is couvcton cn nie cmt of brery and 8 aah Appa send for 90 minty Fore the § Stiswold aegued for a seversal of Willams” convic- ~ Willams as was sentenced to a three-year prison‘ ° - . while Edward Korman, former US. Attorney for ‘erm in January for his Part in the titanium mine _ Eastern District of New York, defended the jury's - ‘scheme. ision and the trial judge's conduct in the case. .. - Korman, who recently resigned his U.S. Attorney's tuanipolt g * 3 ...“The governnient ‘ut to nase off the bear Griswold maintained a ae gov was create @ key geen in the SS ee. = out crime that was already going oo t, acted as a special assistant lederal attorney in found “where the wn” bever Si Ty tet Suet gs wei : The pe iu ia Manat hatian, was scheduled to whe ; State iew a number yesterday afternoos 7: fe said voeinne Us: Supreme Court Justice: : tecoosisier Dwing the oral arguments oF reserved its decision [Louis D. Brandeis drew the 5 Sopr years ago when he “foe dent sem 0 me 6 te fn ay he case. The tapes were secretly recorded by the concluded “government may set ap decoys to trap he ppetia claw,” he told the court’ MEIER id its protracted Abscam campaign that in- t rovoke ' edhe we a eer agent pong aan criminals, but it may not provok a crime and then ! . i cpa aire as Griswold, also a former US. solicitor general, ea pense Shek tt Bagearolt Williams, who did not attend yer | characterized the government's Abscam activities as fone BE keke Way's proceed Ings, resigned from the U.S. Senate in entrapmeat. : tha + Bill la . aS COD a (lowing tis May 1 1981 conviction for seeking - Pcs "of A received a 0 million in loans to revitalize a Virginia titanium ‘He recounted many of the ‘meetings ‘Wiliams 5 par- siding a abeting W ep se green enc oy Be ticipated in that resulted in his indictment and convie . ¥°ar ren ot ice roctended that the ‘cial oui Government contracts to the re ante e great “.*, District Court Judge George Pratt, ial “took the entrapment issue away from the jary ae tat Prats charge to the jury was that i for the jud the government's condu been “legal or illegal, Aeieser Pratt hs rd faa Wiiaene wos was not entr: but acted “know! and voluntarily.”..* tt? mci ‘actions const wnaccentable for a US. seoatag ie ~ ” “The former federal esecutor contendec Williams never made a definite claim of entrapm his trial. He said Williams’ defense a th. “few allusions” to claims of entrapment in nah statement but that Williams “argued essent he was innocent.” : % “ liam eee referred ‘tw "Korman's portrayal ol liams, saying “T'm not concerned with what is ext (jars) bndin official, what concerns me is wheth: indings with the law." 4 cho. le said it was Mel Weinberg, acting on beh the government as an FBI undercover informant initiated the discussions about government contra _-- “And Judge Pratt noted that without the is: government contracts there was no case here,” Kc wl ao malin the jury was “confuse evidence that Willams had bees He claimed there w to mit a fits pave. * SON jolene aca, he deed es ete ital” er oh ended his presentation ‘with a Plea that liars be judged as any other human being. 7 “Nohe of. us is pervect which: means we'r infalibe Kotler Koezler ‘said. “Tf*isn't inconceivable y any of us, even j wie than partes fect human beings, eat be induce something. e are all subject to temptation.” - ‘ The FBI's undercover -Abscam investigati Williams and other political figures was made pat February 1980, the month federal agents | vilite former senator's Washington home and advised b. was under scrutiny." es s-avilliams was cooviclad afl a fives tr