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Just before the trial opened, however, Judge William Matthew Byrne disclosed that a Government wiretap had happened to overhear a conversation involving one of the lawyers or consultants on the defense team. "Serious, shocking, shameful," declared Attorney Leonard Boudin. The defense demanded to know who had been overheard and what had been said...
...eavesdropping at issue last week was admittedly done without a warrant, but the Government claims that it was a "foreign" tap, that the defendants themselves had not been overheard, and that the intercepted conversation had nothing to do with the Ellsberg case. (Boudin represents the government of Chile in certain of its affairs, and some of his 15 colleagues in the trial have had associations with North Viet Nam.) Although the Supreme Court has not explicitly ruled on "foreign" taps, the prosecution claims that they are legal and therefore do not have to be disclosed. Judge Byrne himself studied...
...Everyone thought we lost, but I was terrific," said Lawyer Boudin to his wife on the phone. He had just finished arguing the defense case before Justice Douglas in a small federal courtroom in Yakima, Wash., not far from Douglas' wilderness vacation retreat-and, as it later turned out, he had succeeded in persuading the Justice...
From the beginning, the defense contended that the letters between the Rev. Philip Berrigan and Sister Elizabeth McAlister, some of which alluded to the kidnaping of Henry Kissinger and the blowing up of heating tunnels in Washington, D.C., were merely loose talk. "Conspiracy," said Assistant Defense Attorney Leonard Boudin in his closing argument, "is when a group of people get together and make a commitment-a firm commitment-to action." Countered Chief Prosecutor William Lynch: "Words are the trigger of action." In the end, no amount of words could trigger the jury to action. Last week, after seven days...
...devalue want and deprivation of all sorts," the President rhetoricizes as thousands of militant turkeys and Easter rabbits storm the White House to protest the elimination of their holidays. The turkeys threaten court action. At left WILLIAM KUNSTLER, lawyer for the turkeys (with CHARLES NESSON, ALAN DERSHOWITZ and LEONARD BOUDIN, representing the bunny rabbits in background), declares, "We are in consultation with the reindeer and other oppressed beasts to examine what we can do together to fight this racist, sexist, humanist plan...