Both litigants in the Ford-Sapiro suit have been forbidden by Judge Raymond to present their cases through newspaper interviews or editorials during the course of the trial.
During the first week of the trial Mr. Sapiro gave an interview in which he discussed some of the issues involved. The defense attorneys, Judge Raymond said, complained to him and also told him they understood Mr. Sapiro had agreed to make a series of public addresses during the trial.
The restriction upon the defense was levelled more at “The Dearborn Independent” than at Mr. Ford. He has avoided reporters. Judge Raymond said, however, that advance copies of the issue of “The Independent” which was sold last Saturday were brought to his attention because it contained an editorial entitled “The Trial of Aaron Sapiro”. The following editorial was headed, “Religious Prejudice,” but avoided except by the broadest inference any reference to the racial and religious antipathies involved in the trial.
Judge Raymond declared he did not consider the editorial offensive. Senator James A. Reed, former Judge Stewart Hanley and their associates among Mr. Ford’s counsel, he said, had agreed that the weekly should not discuss the issues at stake while the trial was in progress.
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