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...reply to a request by Leonard Boudin, Spock's attorney, for more particulars, assistant U.S. attorney John Wall told the court: "All Mr. Boudin has to do is go to the Bureau of the Census and ask for the name of every male person between 18 and 35, and he'll know who's been counselled" to break Selective Service laws...
...Boudin and other defense attorneys claimed that Wall's words were a virtual admission that both the indictment and the statute allegedly violated were too broad...
...Boudin, too, insisted that no substantive crime had been alleged, and that the five were being prosecuted only for speech in the form of public opposition to the war and the draft...
Attacking the Justice Department's interpretation of the Selective Service law, Leonard Boudin, Spock's attorney, maintained that Congress never intended mere non-possession of a draft card to be a crime. Even if the regulations of Selective Service were violated, he continued, it would be "an extraordinary delegation of power to the Selective Service System" if every violation were considered a criminal...
Council for the Five includes James D. St. Clair for Coffin, Leonard B. Boudin for Spock, Monroe L. Inker for Goodman and Raskin, and William P. Homan '41 for Ferber. The prosecution was led by Paul F. Markham, A United States Attorney...