| Summary: | Wallace, judge of the Third Judicial Circuit Court, had been ordered to surrender the records by Frank M. Johnson, judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. In his statement Wallace describes a secret, late-night meeting with Johnson to discuss "a settlement that would protect the dignity of both courts." When Johnson suggested that failure to comply with the order might hinder Wallace's political ambitions, Wallace insisted that "I was not doing what I was doing for politics whether he believed it or not that it was a matter of pride and principle of protecting that part of the states [sic] judicial system over which I preside." The two men did not reach an agreement, but Wallace eventually gave the records to local grand juries, who then turned them over to the federal commission agents.
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