Raymond L. Wise was a 20th-century attorney and member of the board of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
[1] Raymond L. Wise "of 80 Broad Street" was an attorney for William Perl, American physicist specializing in jet propulsion and supersonic flight – and Soviet spy in the Rosenberg Case, as documents in the FBI's online "Vault" show.
[7] In June 1952, Wise asked for a reduction in bail from twenty to five thousand dollars; the judge reserved the decision.
[9] In December 1952, Wise asked for another deferral, as he would be in Florida for the winter; the judge decided to keep to resumption in February 1953.
After his return in late April 1953, Wise "stated in strict confidence that he felt Perl should pleasd guilty and cooperate with Government in giving espionage into."
On May 4, 1953, U.S. Judge Thomas Francis Murphy (government prosecutor in the Hiss Case) referred trial for instant case of perjury to Judge Sylvester J. Ryan of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, to commence on May 19, 1953, with Lloyd McMahon and Robert Martin prosecuting and Raymond L. Wise and Stanley Kanavek defending.
As for evidence from Helene Ellitcher, Wise argued that the court could only expect her to corroborate the testimony of her husband, Max Elitcher, a communist and known perjurer.
[1] In June 1948, he submitted a letter to The New York Times with a "careful study" of the provisions of the Mundt-Nixon Bill.
Summarizing its spirit and intent, he wrote: It is contrary to our fundamental theories of government to penalize or put pressure on expression of opinion or on free association in advance of personal criminal guilt, established after trial by due process of law.