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a, _ @ FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63) - Oe on E my oo J : . £ rs . or ei Air. Tolsen————— “ye fo H “ fi! oa { . . aoe { (Mount Clipping in Space Below) howing Sobol fo be a resident ome oll : ah with Case Earlier ~-SO bol . Washington and} New Orleans. *F Ob Phe y Heard sot ia attorney was called Sobol said that he still main aa Loo eee I section Heard. on’ Day] to ad by. his attorg ins a checking account with a es - He Se y 10 pptein’ 2s the - ington bank and has never| 0 ‘Sentencing, © ways nose séesion of court began.<| had a personal bank account) a : . _T Earlier in the day the court] here. Civil rights attorney Richard heard’festimony from Sam} “The civil rights attorney also Sobol, who is under a charge}-Monk: Zelden, a New -Orleans testified that he has handled ; attorney who was called out off cases in Louisiana, Mississi i (indicate gage, name of i engh| tury by attorney Cicero C. St and Alabama since taking Tea] | Rewepapey: city and “sary ac / : who is representing the} position with LCDC and has youe /o before whom he defended a Msiana State Bar Associa-| practiced in both federal and Ce mamamenneal never objected to his taking pat tion; The Rev. Albert. J. Me- i tnd the day the defendant wa] Knight, @ Ne Catholic priest “fie cote a ese ary PAGE 2 SOND non Dit at EES ENPERTENCE | Oe oe, aed He snd e-. Washington D.C., at- | he said he has handled. He said SECTION 3 torney, who has been doing ciy-| Sobol testified that he il rights work here for about a} graduate of the Columbia year and a half, gave this tes-4 versity law school and has bem timony when he took the wit- admitted te practice in New in his” f istrict of Colum- case in which he is seeking to dia and before the Supreme restrain his prosecution in Plaq- Court of the. United States, the 4] thafno question of his right | ice was ever questioned. ~ Sobol asserted that he has} TIMES PICAYUNE never received a fee while with LCDC. “Indigency is not a re-| | —— NEW ORLEANS, LA. | quirement but it usually turns) out to be a fact,” he said. He repeated ‘testimony given by other witnesses So far in the —_— that Negroes and civil rights workers in Louisiana have em no frust or confidence in tocal az) wee / 2 4 attorneys when it comes to civil go ae a 7 The attorney claimed that he, ‘ + would not be able to do his work if: FEB 9 $68 if he: were restricted to-dhe| — . before coming to ma, iKstate.’ Bronstein contended tha with a large Washington law, state <boGhdaries are meaning- firm .- »- less in this type of work. <= He related that he was a vol-| Recounting his connection unteer attorney for the ‘, during August, 1965 and then re- said that his first contact with turned here on Aug. 1, 19661 when he was employed as staff attorney for LCDC, At thatllaw firm of Collins, Douglas time, he added, he left Washing- Ellie. - Cos {on on a leave of ase ter He asserted that he discussed e firm and Porter i i and is expected to return to that the matter with Robert Collins, | isiana. , _ Under Bronstein’s questioning related his scholastic achievements and of much spe ciat effort in the field of con- stitutional law. For a little over three years meee ET SG Date: 1-31-68 Edition: Authors Editors GEORGE W peEALY Title: RICHARD SOBOL J. R. Heebe and Fred J. Cassi- bry. The case will continue Wed- nesday ati0am. Sobol was arrested In the Plaquemines Parish courthouse on Feb. 21, 1967, after he had conferred with Judge Eugene Leon about bond for Gary Dun- can, a Negro he had defended and who was found guilty of bat- TY. CharacterOR or Classificetion: ky Submitting Office: N.0., LA. 9 (7) Being Investigated ington, the witness asserted, , iereni. ithe position with LCDC forj,, on, ve Pla , they decide able to defend civil rights cases. 2.900 a yoo but has been Sobol conten quia through Duncan was charged with sim-|7aised to $15,000 since he be-l + ini ‘others h ug ple battery as a result of an in- came chief staff counsel. He) 0° vated with ts “o a hed cident which took place between i associated with the local ‘aw two Negroes and four white He asserted that in November ton fi uch} ” youths near recently des on firm are mating as much} He asserfed fying the case, a | mines. DESCRIBES CASES he met Judge Leon with Col- a Bronstein placed into etdins and was in uced=by-Tl- a ‘Grd a number, of credit cards lins as a Washington. atlorney.