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Laurent Frantz

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1940s
State:Alabama
Support
Civil Liberties
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Biography

Laurent Frantz was a Birmingham, Alabama attorney for the Communist Party who was illegally arrested and held incommunicado by federal agents working with the Dies Committee in 1940. He went on to a career as a civil-liberties lawyer and legal scholar.

Case

Charges: Illegally arrested and held incommunicado by federal agents.
Arrested: 1940
Sentence: Held incommunicado.
Convicted: Held, 1940