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...page opinion found that on more than 150 occasions Judge Hoffman had made comments before the jury implying that the defense counsel was "inept, bumptious or untrustworthy, or that his case lacked merit." Cumulatively, these "gratuitous" remarks "must have telegraphed to the jury the judge's contempt for the defense." One example cited was Judge Hoffman's snide comment when Defense Attorney William Kunstler objected that he did not understand a particular ruling: "You will have to see a lawyer, Mr. Kunstler, if you don't understand...
...Supreme Court. Although the court did give the Government the right to retry the defendants, this seems unlikely in view of the work and cost involved; in addition, the Government under a new Supreme Court ruling would have to disclose information derived from wiretaps. The harsh sentences for contempt that Judge Hoffman gave the defendants and two of their lawyers had been overturned earlier by the appeals court, which ruled that the defendants were entitled to contempt trials before a different judge. It is not certain whether the Government will seek such trials...
...this whole controversy because he fears what blacks could do if they were organized politically around an issue. Memories of 1969 are not very far from Dunlop's mind, and he knows that in comparison to what happened at Cornell, Harvard escaped relatively unscathed. Dunlop has only scorn and contempt for white radicals; for blacks, he has fear...
Although we must condemn Judge Garrity for failing to avert this aberration of justice. We hold in contempt those government agents who hold in contempt those government agents who spent the past 16 months in relentless drive to clog the free flow of information...
...court's gag order. Although Farr submitted the names of six attorneys and said that his sources were among them (under oath all denied involvement), Judge Older ordered him jailed until he specified his informants. In December 1971, Section 1070 was amended to shield former newsmen from contempt citations, but that same month, in upholding Older's decision, a state appeals court ruled that the "vital power of the court to control its own proceedings and officers" was paramount. If the Evidence Code interfered with that judicial right, the decision added, the code would be unconstitutional...