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...have no respect for the laws, the verdict or the sentence. We will continue to maintain our position as freedom fighters." With that defiant statement, three defendants in the Brink's robbery case shrugged off their conviction last week in Goshen, N.Y., on 21 counts of murder and armed robbery...
...Using racketeering, conspiracy and bank-robbery statutes, federal authorities "are trying the people we could not easily get under state law," explains Gribetz. The federal-local cooperation has continued through the two trials, with boxes of handwriting specimens, fingerprints, hair samples and other physical evidence commuting between Manhattan and Goshen. In addition, several witnesses were called to testify at both trials...
...with crucial early information, which he later claimed was coerced out of him. Questions were raised among prosecutors as to whether some of Brown's statements could be used against him in any trial. Brown does not face any federal charges, but Gribetz wants to try him in Goshen. In order to avoid tainting his case, the local prosecutor insists that he deliberately never examined any evidence in the federal case that originated with Brown, including tapes and transcripts from wiretaps that formed the foundation of the federal prosecution...
...current Goshen trial, Gribetz has also been meticulous. He introduced 84 witnesses and 540 pieces of evidence in the process of building a case against Defendants Judith Clark, 33, David Gilbert, 39, and Kuwasi Balagoon, 36. In federal court, the four-month trial of the six defendants involved more than 100 witnesses. To be sure, the presentation of both cases was made easier by the refusal of some defendants to offer a standard defense. The three Goshen suspects early on pronounced the trial "illegitimate," because they consider themselves to be "freedom fighters" and "prisoners of war." They declined...
Meanwhile, a second Goshen trial-of Samuel Brown and Kathy Boudin-is set to begin in October. Boudin, 40, the most notorious of the suspects because of her link to the 1970 explosion of a Greenwich Village Weather Underground bomb factory, will be represented by attorneys who have consulted with her father, Civil Liberties Lawyer Leonard Boudin. They, as well as Brown's lawyers, are expected to put up a vigorous, conventional defense. That trial could be even costlier than its predecessor. -By Michael S. Serrill...