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...Boudin's appearance certainly doesn't overwhelm anybody. He's on the small side, and heavy bags under his eyes make him look tired. His gray-white hair, once blond, is short but disheveled, and his simple sports coat and sweater are more the dress of a recluse academic than a senior law partner with a 10-room office in downtown New York...
Leonard B. Boudin is the name. And the man's legal defense record is an impressive march through American social history; starting with labor leaders in the thirties, to alleged Russian spies in the forties, past anti-McCarthyites in the fifties, and onto Spock, Berrigan, and Ellsberg in the last decades...
...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...