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Weinglass spoke for two hours on the disparities of the Chicago 7 trial, and cited individual contempt charges made against the defendants and the lawyers by Judge Julius Hoffman. Weinglass said. however, that contempt charges probably would be dropped in the appeal case...
...Hoffman is doling out contempt charges and saying that lawyers "who are waiting in the wings" are responsible for the rise in crime. Kunstler finishes with a plea that his fate "not deter other lawyers throughout the country who, in the difficult days that lie ahead, will be asked to defend clients against a steadily increasing governmental encroachment upon their most fundamental liberties...
Hoffman's mangling of the Bobby Seale case was another striking abuse during the trial. The editors have done an intelligent job of highlighting the events that led to Seale's jailing on contempt charges in November. The material they present makes two points that have generally been lost in press accounts of the trial: first, that Seale's outbursts were rarely "obscene" and were always aimed at the Judge's refusal to let Seale act as his own lawyer; and second, that Hoffman's opposition to Seale's plea was based on the totally unrealistic premise that letting Seale...
...were a spectacle. People came to find out what they looked like, what they talked like. Still, in spite of it all, they bore their message gracefully and honorably, with a lightness that one would not expect from men who may spend lengthy periods in prison for contempt of Hoffman's court...
...legalistic basis; in fact, with the passage of the "inciting to riot" law, they could not possibly have done so. It is conceivable that the "inciting" law will be overturned by a higher court; it is unlikely that a federal judge's power to convict and sentence for contempt will ever be challenged, though Hoffman's particular citations may eventually be toned down...