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Left-wing New York City attorney William Kunstler is the inevitable legal champion of some of the most despised suspects--cop killers, assassins, terrorists. So what is the likelihood that he will eventually take on the case of Rashid Baz, the man arrested for last week's Brooklyn Bridge shootings? Time asked some top criminal-defense lawyers to post the odds...
...audiocassettes unquestionably contain material embarrassing to the FBI and awkward for the prosecution in both the bombing trial under way in Manhattan and the related case alleging a massive conspiracy to blow up New York City landmarks and assassinate public officials. Says William Kunstler, a defense attorney in the second case: "The FBI never knew they were being taped, so they said very careless things -- how the informant was to conduct himself, how far he could go and how to entice them. This is probably the only case since entrapment became a defense where you have the law-enforcement agents...
Abouhalima and his friends are enthralled by Nosair, whom they view as a hero. They devoutly attended his trial and rallied outside on the sidewalk. After the murder acquittal, a jubilant Abouhalima hoisted defense lawyer William Kunstler onto his shoulders and carried him from the courthouse. Thereafter, Abouhalima visited Nosair frequently in prison...
...case may stand or fall on Salem's credibility to a trial jury. Defense Attorney William Kunstler accuses him of concocting the whole plot and entrapping the other defendants in it as a money-making venture -- there are reports that the FBI is paying him as much...
...people who were not yuppies or establishment types." He also said that the defense eliminated any potential jurors who supported Israel and who thus could have been biased against Nosair, an Arab. Clearly, were it not for his "made-to-order" group of nine female and three male jurors, Kunstler himself felt Nosair would have had no chance combating the prosecution's 51 witnesses...