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Writing to Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, Chief Judge David Bazelon of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington sharply questioned the effect on the "poor Negro citizen" of such draft proposals as 20-minute street detention, dragnet arrests to sift suspects, station-house questioning up to 24 hours after arrest, and lack of free counsel for indigents. Protested Bazelon: "I cannot understand why the crimes of the poor are so much more damaging to society as to warrant the current hue and cry-reflected in the proposed code -for enlarging police powers, which primarily are directed against those crimes...
...blunt reply, Katzenbach said: "It would be ridiculous to state that the overriding purpose of any criminal investigation is to insure equal treatment. Obviously, criminal investigation is designed to discover those guilty of crime." To be sure, he said, the great purpose of appellate court decisions reforming police procedures has been to cure glaring inequities. "But as the cases have presented more and more difficult questions of fairness and propriety, I believe the judges have left the public behind...
...Committee, summed up: "Throughout his public statements runs a consistent theme. He is the only person with the legal experience and skill to consistently outmaneuver the federal courts, Congress and the Executive. He is the thinking man's segregationist." Star witness for the Administration was Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, who argued that Coleman's steady defense of law and order in the hostile atmosphere of Mississippi was "worth a hundred campaign speeches." And, like President Johnson, Coleman himself admitted past "mistakes," said he now believed that "separation of individuals by reason of color and color alone is dead...
...appropriate: Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg; two past presidents of the American Bar Association, Charles Rhyne and Robert Storey; the current Bar Association president, Lewis Powell, and the president-elect, Edward Kuhn; William S. Thompson, secretary-general of the World Peace Through Law Center; and Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach...
...Poverty, attended by 500 U.S. jurists and lawyers. President Johnson's anti-poverty administrators suggested that lawyers should step in and help the poverty program by seeing to it that the poor are given a fair shake by everybody from slumlords to loan sharks. Said Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach: Lawyers' ethical standards "have served us well and will continue to do so, but I cannot believe their purpose is to prevent legal services from being offered to individuals who desperately need them but do not know how to seek them...