Note 295 — V. EVIDENCE CONCERNING PRINCIPAL ISSUES IN THE CASE (continued 6)

Mr. LaFollette, Deputy Chief Counsel, stated the following concerning the prosecution’s purpose in offering this document in evidence: “I briefly stated this morning with reference to the other brief [Judges’ Letters] and to this brief [Lawyers’ Letter] that the prosecution offers them as evidence for the purpose of showing that there was a direct controlled judiciary and bar. We are not offering these documents as evidence of any particular act contained therein, but since we offer them, we are to some extent bound by them and our purpose of offering them is to prove there was a connection” (Tr. p. 412). Mr. LaFollette also stated that this was the only Lawyers’ Letter known to the prosecution.