Word: kunstler
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This year, two things made the brisk monotony of a Minnesota January more bearable: the upcoming Super Bowl and the Wounded Knee trial. But for all the publicity focused on the "Indian Trial of the Century" (in the words of defense attorney William Kunstler), most Minnesotans seemed more interested in Vikings than Indians...
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...
...People ask me how I can justify sending my clients all over the country to collect for their defense. A couple of years back Kunstler came to Harvard, and told students they should do civil liberties work for nothing. But he's the exception--he can afford to do this because he does the lecture route. Most people can't, and I don't want to do this...
...Center. Four persons were wounded and a physicist was killed. Caught in Canada early last year and finally extradited, Armstrong, 27, pleaded guilty six weeks ago in Madison, Wis., to second-degree murder and arson-but not before an unusual bit of plea bargaining. Armstrong wanted, as Attorney William Kunstler put it, "a chance to bring to his compatriots what...
Marlise James's book The People's Lawyers is a collection of interviews with poverty lawyers, civil rights lawyers, radical and minority lawyers. James includes the stars of the radical law set: William Kunstler, Charles Garry and Len Weinglass...