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comment ee ee we ce cement Pet eet Oa be eee we teeth, ee ee er ae een a the ve 2: J “we a gs ” bys ef - ar hs co wi fy SS 1OA. Tuesday,” ie 21, 1965) 5) ; % er oe : Says . . : . : By JOHN McDERMOTT 0 . an an . . Herald Staff writer: Meivin M. Belii called J. Edga: Hoover “an ‘ideologi-| cil fascist” Monday. during an address at Miami Beach. He also.took a chop at- US. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. : ‘| “I> doen't ke Edgar. Hoov-. Her,” ceclared the San Francis-. | co .attorney.as he opened his:.: } remarks ‘to the newly formed |{Criminai Law Section. of the | ! American _Trial Lawyers in tee ett tee a Fe, i tblea u Hotel. i “Ay "the. US. -Supreme® Court» . inst charges “that, th d : ; one oF the Treason . | he docsn't like Hoover’ is that: 4!he sas” designedly, § created | himself tions {such organization,-- an - Am aze 0 ‘tpoliticans are ‘un-Ameriaan in \their fear of ‘him and’ afraid lto criticize him even though ee, cal fascist.” Belli went on’ to aay, how- wee son he dislikes Hoover “and ers is because uf uieir snide . and surreptitious criticism -of ; ithe US. Supreme. Court.” 2. : What the courts are doing, " said Belli,,is protecting the: , rights of the accused regard- less of who they are. ¢ ~~ ‘adept public relations’ eee onfuse U.S. common.:.law - vith French civil law ““vhere’ ! practically, ° an accused man_ is presumed ‘to he guilty, unt .; proved otherwise." : As for a iawyer~ secking’ loopholes. to keep’ a-“*man.! from :jail,. this. is. a-‘duty : ‘which every attorney. must~ assume in searching for what- ever last ditch “technicali-: ties.” < Eelli said that he has | seen . these same locpholes and -technicalitics save the inno- cent from the death chamber as well as, if? some cases the- “guilty. as : . , “tf subscribe to ‘the: neces-. sity ‘of 'a legal system’ that =: convention at the Fontaine- . -Beilli’s - “observations “aim oT fas! ‘he defended ‘the ‘Americatr: . Mihat even: honest’ “American®. ijthey know he i is an Adeologi- . ever, that tie principal rea-' his embittered far-rightwing::! He said Hoover and.his:! : ean boast ‘better let 99° ‘guil-.# “ty: go free than’ convict :one : in : ENCLOS u RE... through oa his high- powered public rela- He’said that' a crimina} - lawyer has the duty to seek . loopholes just as much as i is the job of a corp-rativd attorney to seek technicalx ties by which his clients can ‘avoid payments of. taxes. . Belli: hit.-at: Kennedy, juniors.senator. -from- the. New-+ 1 ney general for advocating : the use of wire ‘tapping ‘in the. apprehension of crimi- . i nals. | ebover Land: “their” strange ere fe ‘said. _{ am‘ thinking. ‘I'm not a criminal. I've got nothing to hi de.” . prstreetee oe —<— ” Belt ‘gaid ance his phone is tapped then “someone” will posure of his ianermost thoughts but will also want to “assist me in my thinking and ‘tell me how I should think... - | WEE i UGr ae meen 65. York: and former U.S. attor-_ : “Bobhiy. Kennedy: and Mr. “They want to know ‘what: T am.saying, therefore, what. he, forces’ cf* the” far ‘right; . ft Wait! te tap. my. telephone,’ not be satisfied with the ex- . - tha ik Es * count in rt " 5 as been fulfilling — uty by rrotectiny: -< ¥ idual nar “tes “such as’ laboratories Rad 4 ; radios. : BS Pri : : Belli.” groups’ which. ary: ta se I-to attain their. own : fish aims to the det imen our people asa whol, et ae * Belli concluded t that -there is no change the so- call” a dling laws”. "} crime feu presery: legai +.: