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...sure, Berrigan was harsh with Arab leadership as well ("Their capacity for deception, remarkable even for our world ... their contempt for their own poor"). He also tried to soften his criticism by asserting that as "a priest in resistance against Rome" and as "an American in resistance against Nixon," he was "very like a Jew." Berrigan's remarks, his choice of audience, and his pose as an archetypal Jew infuriated Jewish leaders. Historian Arthur Hertzberg, noting that the Jesuit has never been to Israel, ticked off a number of factual errors made by Berrigan in an angry reply...
...story on a grand-jury proceeding, St. Petersburg Times Reporter Lucy Ware Morgan was sentenced to five months in jail (TIME, Nov. 26). The Times's lawyers then appealed, arguing, among other things, that Mrs. Morgan's refusal to name sources might be considered an act of contempt only if she balked before the grand jury in question. Quick to oblige, State Attorney James T. Russell hauled Mrs. Morgan before the grand jury and again demanded her sources. She again declined but later had a partial change of heart. Last week she filed an affidavit naming...
...much had changed since those days that it was difficult to call back the passion or the classic clash between the radical antiwar movement and the criminal-justice system. By the time three of the original defendants and one of their lawyers were found guilty last week of contempt of court during the first trial, the denouement had dwindled to a legal mop-up operation...
Partly because of Judge Hoffman's earlier excesses, two appeals court decisions had thrown out not only the convictions of five of the seven for crossing state lines with intent to foment riots but also the 159 contempt citations handed down by Hoffman. The Government decided against retrying the riot charges, but U.S. Attorney James Thompson overcame the prosecutorial reluctance of superiors on the contempt issue because he believed that the obstructionist tactics of the defense during the first trial should not stand unpunished. After a five-week trial, Judge Gignoux concluded that only 13 of the contempt counts...
Punishable contempt, said Gignoux, exists when intentional "misbehavior, in the presence of a judge, is substantial enough to cause material obstruction of the trial." Lawyer William Kunstler was cited twice-for a harangue labeling the proceedings a "legal lynching" after Ralph Abernathy had been barred as a witness and later, when Abernathy came into court, for interrupting the trial and embracing him. Dellinger was convicted on seven counts, including vilifying Judge Hoffman as a "fascist," "liar" and "the chief prosecutor." Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman got two citations each for stunts like dressing in judicial robes decorated with Stars...