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Lennox Hinds, a professor of criminal justice, in 1978 criticized the trial of Joanne Chesimard, who was accused and later convicted of murdering a New Jersey state trooper in East Brunswick...
While the court was in session, Hinds held a press conference to denounce the trial of Chesimard as a "legalized lynching" by a "kangaroo court." Hinds was not Chesimard's attorney but spoke on behalf of the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression and the National Conference of Black Lawyers, of which he was director...
...Americans to visit Tehran in July for a conference on American involvement in Iran. A New York judicial committee has recommended that Hinds not be allowed to practice law in that state because of his Iran trip and because of his comments on the Chesimard case...
Often the groups are led by women, partly because of the radicals' active support of the feminist movement. Their heroines are Bernardine Dohrn, a leader of the Weather Underground, and Joanne Chesimard, a highly visible member of the Black Liberation Army. Their martyrs include Diana Oughton, who accidentally blew herself up while making bombs for the Weather Underground, and Tamara Bunke, known as "Tania," the Argentine-born revolutionary who was killed while fighting with Che Guevara in Bolivia and from whom Patty Hearst took her own revolutionary name. Wrote Dohrn in Prairie Fire, the Weather Underground's heavily...
Born. To Joanne Chesimard, 26, an alleged leader of the Black Liberation Army who is now awaiting trial for murder, and Fred Hilton, 21, reputed B.L.A. member who, with Chesimard, was acquitted of bank-robbery charges last year: a girl. The child, born in a Queens, N.Y., hospital while a contingent of uniformed patrolmen stood guard, was conceived in a detention room after Chesimard and Hilton were dragged out of the adjoining courtroom for disorderly conduct during their bank-robbing trial last December...