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er anaine it the verte defendant's conviction sani te” ‘lurned betanee thers oes polo ‘Mings that led to his indictment and he gee foent improperly provoked him at each step “The elf the Second Creal att of Ay for 90 minotes as iver and former Harvard Law School Dean Sriswold argued for a reversal of Williams’ coavic: ~ i. while Edward Korman, former US. Attorney for Eastern District of New York, defended the ary’s ion a he ral ju Fe seontit athe cam rman, who recently resigned his US. Atlorey's assistant federal attorney in venting the government's case... The panel, siting in Maat, was was scheduled to iew a number of Abscam tapes yesterdar reemembe iy afternoon *- owing the oral arguments and reserved its decision bbe case. The lapes were secretly recorded by the during its protracted Abscam campaign that in- ted the ae of a federal agent posing as an Arab ae 62+ hd Williams, who did not attend yes- lay's provece lings, resigned from the U.S. Senate in hs May’ 1981 conviction for seeking i) mien ih in Yoans to revitalize a Virginia titanium e in which he held a hidden interest and for is to help secure soverument contracts to the e’soutpat =" > . E belo appeals pane soo im few Jers Democratic senator i his conviction on nine counts of bribery tot Spin. He was te only U US, senator convicted Williams was sentenced eric progressed from government agents i overeat continued interest manipalat a three-year prison, (2°) “This term in January for his part in the titanium mine "be ong and I woud schemes Le Frenpes doen off the beating, Griswold maintained a x key ban) in the Abscam investigation revolves around “where the be drawn” in govern: ~ Be said onetime US. Sopreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis drew the line 50 years ago when he concluded “government may set up decoys to trap criminals, but it ma tot provoke & a crime and then CGrewale, as a former US slcior general “haracierizd the governments Abcam actives as Bee recounted many of the etings Vaan ms par | ticipated in that resulted in his indictment tic apd insieed “the onusdtion ef cach siege armen ‘came from and only carne from the government. "Griswold said Wiss Fonality tant seem to oe pe tld the coert for the jud ‘deen ‘Kesler former federal’ prosecutor contendec liams never made a definite claim of entrapm Ni trial He said Williams’ defense at m “few allusions” to claims of entrapment in hi statement but that Williams “argued essen! he was innocent.” ~ Roelzer referred to Korman’s oats Gn iaid € wes ie Welberg i the government as an FBI peer Initated the discussions about And ug Pratt noted that wibout the it government eonracts there was no case here," Ki ~- yHle also mattiained the jury was “confuse the issue of predisposition. He claimed there w evidence that Willams had been predisposed te mit a crime. indent ara Be Sere ean ital,” ler aded his presentation with a plea that lize be fudged as any other human being. = eNone of.us is perfec which mesas we'r iia foe said. tt any Of us, even j Sie han pert fect buman beings, ean be induce: something. We are all subject to temptation.” The FBI's undercover Abscam investigati Williams and other political figures was made pat February 1980, the month feseral ents visite former senators Washington home and advised b wisn ray :