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DIED. WILLIAM KUNSTLER, 76, lawyer; of a heart attack; in New York City. His face seemed ready-made for a radical's Mount Rushmore-the broad, furrowed brow, the corona of unkempt hair, the dishabille that left him looking as if he'd been blown around by the furies he provoked with his fierce defenses of civil and criminal rights. In the summer of 1961, however, he was more conventionally groomed. That's when he got his first taste of radical politics, springing antisegregationist Freedom Riders from Southern jails. The experience changed his life and led to a client list...
...William Kunstler, whom wags have called "the most hated lawyer in America," died Monday in New York of a heart attack. The radical barrister, once "special trial counsel" to Martin Luther King Jr., made a national name for himself defending the Chicago Seven and, more recently, such diverse and controversial figures as Indian activist Leonard Peltier, flag burner Gregory Johnson, mob boss John Gotti and Washington, D.C. Mayor Mayor Marion Barry. "He was definitely one of the leading left-of-center lawyers in this century," says legal correspondent Adam Cohen. "His cases showed the country that it was divided...
...family. Eight months into the pregnancy, she told Christian that Drollet was beating her. Christian confronted her boyfriend with a .45-cal. handgun at Brando's California estate, and in the ensuing struggle, Drollet was killed. "The messenger of misery has come to my house," Brando told attorney William Kunstler that night. Christian, who was represented by both Kunstler and Robert Shapiro, was sentenced to 10 years for manslaughter, but with time off for good behavior, he may be out of prison as early as next January...
...prosecutionwitness against Malcolm X's daughter, who is charged with plotting to kill Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, today testified that the government promised him $45,000 to act as an informant in the case. Michael Fitzpatrick's testimony provided fresh ammunition for defense attorney William Kunstler, who contends defendant Qubilah Shabazz was entrapped by the informant. Fitzpatrick, who allegedly was hired by Shabazz to kill Farrakhan, said during a pretrial hearing that he has received $34,000 for secretly recording telephone conversations with Shabazz and expects to get $11,000 more. Shabazz said during the taped conversations that...
...William Kunstler is more than just a lefty defense attorney known for taking on unpopular clients like Colin Ferguson and Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman. He's also a poet, having just published a collection of sonnets, Hints & Allegations, which features works such as "The Trial of Marion Barry" ("When our officialdom has stooped so low/ We all must utter a resounding 'No!'") and "William H. Rehnquist" ("The thought that such a man could lead the Court/ Might well have made the Framers self-abort"). In fact, a number of prominent attorneys display bardic talent-as we discovered by repunctuating some...