Word: boudin
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...taint" and motions for mistrial and dismissal, but Byrne hesitated. He was troubled because there were no very direct precedents to guide him. Indeed there could hardly be any, since both the charges and the revelations of the Government's interference and misconduct were unprecedented. Defense Counsel Leonard Boudin tried to cajole Byrne with the coy suggestion: "I'm hopeful that in future when I'm asked to cite a precedent, I'll be able to cite one made by Your Honor in this case...
First Byrne offered the defense a choice: Did it want to press for dismissal or take the risk of letting the case go to the jury for a final verdict? It took Boudin & Co. only a one-minute huddle to answer: "Dismissal." Byrne had obviously anticipated this and had the appropriate ruling prepared. He read it quickly but clearly. The Government, he noted dryly, had made an "extraordinary series of disclosures" regarding the activities of several agencies. He had tried to develop "all relevant information" about these activities, but "new information has produced new questions, and there remain more questions...
...Chief Attorneys Leonard Boudin and Leonard Weinglass plus the three other trial lawyers begin gathering in their offices located five blocks from the courtroom; legal aides report on points they have spent the night researching. Meanwhile the fund raisers are arriving to call East Coast donors. Even during the trial, the offices, emblazoned with antiwar posters and looking more like a political headquarters than a law firm, continue to buzz. The phones are always ringing, the Xerox machine never stops. But the heart of the office day begins at 4:30 p.m., when the lawyers return from court and meet...
Throughout the week's proceedings, Ellsberg's chief counsel, Leonard Boudin, 60, also showed wear. Though a veteran of the trials of Dr. Benjamin Spock and the Rev. Philip Berrigan, Boudin has always been more at home with appellate procedures than in trial law, and he faltered in his questioning, so much so that Judge William Matthew Byrne himself frequently took up the line of inquiry. Reliant on a heart pacemaker, Boudin finally was ordered to rest by his doctor. The proceedings were suspended until this week, when Ellsberg is expected to take the stand again...
...concerning the quality of ingredients in food and beverage imports, something they seldom did in the days before Britain entered the EEC. Ronald Davidson, owner of Osborne House, has pleaded that the pork pies fit into the allowed category of pate en croute, that his sausages are really boudin blanc, and that Rose's Lime Juice is a permissible fruit extract. But the continental customs men-to whom a British delicacy is a contradiction in terms, anyway-have turned a deaf...