08-01-2011, 03:31 PM
The Dallas defense lawyers ( public defenders ) were so frightened of being assigned the Oswald case, that they purposely created a conflict-of-interest situation by donating to a fund for the family of slain officer Tippit. A donation, apparently, disqualified the donor from being appointed Oswald's lawyer.
"...they had started a Tippit fund in the meantime, and practically every lawyer was scared they were going to be appointed, you know, and they had gone and subscribed to that fund so they were having much trouble getting a lawyer appointed."
Wade describes the difficulty Louis Nichols was having trying to get a criminal lawyer ( Nichols didnt practice criminal law ) to go with him to talk to Oswald.
"Louis Nichols.....was trying to get some criminal lawyer to go down there with him, and I said, 'Go down there yourself and talk to him because they are raising just so much cain about it and see what they want and tell him you will get him a lawyer.'"
-- testimony of Henry Wade ( 5 H 239-240 )
That's how afraid the lawyers were of this corrupt Dallas system.
"...they had started a Tippit fund in the meantime, and practically every lawyer was scared they were going to be appointed, you know, and they had gone and subscribed to that fund so they were having much trouble getting a lawyer appointed."
Wade describes the difficulty Louis Nichols was having trying to get a criminal lawyer ( Nichols didnt practice criminal law ) to go with him to talk to Oswald.
"Louis Nichols.....was trying to get some criminal lawyer to go down there with him, and I said, 'Go down there yourself and talk to him because they are raising just so much cain about it and see what they want and tell him you will get him a lawyer.'"
-- testimony of Henry Wade ( 5 H 239-240 )
That's how afraid the lawyers were of this corrupt Dallas system.