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Sample Insurgents. "If the new Administration prosecutes the demonstrators," Clark said, "it will be a clear sign of a hard-line crackdown" on dissent. Shortly thereafter, Richard Nixon's new Attorney General, John Mitchell, authorized the U.S. Attorney in Chicago, Thomas Foran, to add demonstration leaders to the grand jury's agenda. In March, the grand jury indicted a balanced ticket: eight policemen, eight radical ralliers...
Under the blurry federal conspiracy doctrine, Foran had to show only that before the defendants got to Chicago they had knowingly agreed to incite riots, and that after they got there one of them had done something about it. The star prosecution witnesses were four undercover agents, who said that the Seven had planned violence before the convention, and that several threw rocks at police cars, purchased materials for fire and stink bombs, and made inflammatory speeches urging the crowds to march without permits and "kill the pigs...
Calling the Chicago Seven "highly sophisticate, highly educated" but "evil men," attorney Thomas A. Foran concluded the government's summary to the U. S. District Court jury of ten women and two men. He spoke after defense attorney William M. Kunsiler told them that "It is your responsibility to see that men can still speak boldly and remain the masters of their souls...
...just settle it right here and now? What is it with all these lawyers, anyway?" The mayor merely laughed. Though he stared stolidly past Kunstler during much of the questioning, Daley replied courteously when he had the chance to answer at all -which was rare. Prosecutor Thomas Foran repeatedly objected to Kunstler's questions, and Judge Hoffman sustained Foran's position 70 times. When Kunstler made a motion to have Daley declared hostile, the judge replied: "The mayor has been a most friendly witness." He denied the motion...
...year-old judge unquestionably has been provoked. Last week, for example, the defendants draped a large Viet Cong flag over the counsel table after Hoffman denied them a day off to participate in the nationwide peace demonstrations. Foran denounced Attorney William Kunstler for supporting the defendants' efforts to bring the Moratorium into the courtroom. After an angry exchange, Foran growled: "I have contempt for Mr. Kunstler." The judge rebuked only Kunstler. As the dominant figure in the courtroom, a judge can easily influence the jury if his likes and dislikes are too obvious. If convicted, the Chicago Eight...