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Counsel. Leader of the defense counsel at the Decatur trial is shrewd, bald-browed Samuel S. Leibowitz of Manhattan. His fee is being paid by the International Labor Defense, Communist organization; but no Red is Counsel Leibowitz. One of his chief concerns last week was to forestall any provocative demonstration by his employers, who filtered into town in increasing numbers...
Lily White Justice. Counsel Leibowitz first moved that the indictments against his clients be quashed on the grounds that, by banning Negroes from the Jackson County jury roll, the State of Alabama had denied the defendants their constitutional rights at the original trial. Attorney General Thomas E. Knight, whose father wrote the Alabama Supreme Court decision sustaining the prior verdict, put the burden of proof on the defense. What Counsel Leibowitz had to prove, every Southerner knows to be true: Negroes simply are not allowed on juries in Alabama. After two days of bickering, Judge James E. Horton, a Lincolnesque...
...defense next moved that the present indictment be quashed because of similar "systematic exclusion" of Negroes from the Morgan County venire. When jury board commissioners failed to say whether or not their jury rolls contained Negro names, Counsel Leibowitz threatened to have all 2,000 talesmen subpoenaed "if it takes till doomsday," to see what color they were...