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William M. Kunstler, a well-known civil rights lawyer, spoke at Dudley House yesterday evening about the manipulation of American law by the Supreme Court and the naivite of the American people concerning civil rights issues...
Most of these radical attorneys attended law school in the late '60s and were deeply influenced by the radical student movement of the time. In their forensic strategies, they have clearly taken cues from the U.S.'s William Kunstler and other defense counsel who gained prominence during the widely publicized trials of American radicals like the Chicago Seven. The German lawyers have mastered the art of disrupting cases with obfuscating rhetoric, demands for evidence that is impossible to secure, requests for delays. Lacking any provision for contempt of court, German judges have generally been powerless to control these...
Twice, Civil Rights Lawyer William Kunstler and Activist Comedian Dick Gregory spoke to protest rallies. In May 200 demonstrators staged a campus march, and some of them pitched tents on the famous hill. They vowed to stay until the bulldozers pushed them out. So far the university's trustees have reject ed the protesters' demands to pick another site. At week's end retiring President Glenn Olds ordered the eviction of the 50 to 100 tent dwellers, many of whom are not students. They planned to resist...
...return made national headlines and sparked a major press freedom court case when Worthy's passport was revoked. A three year contest for its reissuance, directed by attorney "William Kunstler of Chicago Seven fame, proved ultimately unsuccessful when the Supreme Court refused to review the case...
Dissenter Kunstler has been an attorney for the defense at the trials of Rap Brown, the Chicago Seven, Attica inmates, Wounded Knee Indians and is now representing Jack and Micki Scott...