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...William Kunstler argued on Petriarca's behalf that disclosing the information would "make a mockery of the Fourth Amendment," which prohibits illegal searches and seizures...
...Abbie Hoffman, 41, onetime noisemaker and co-founder of the Yippies, who has been on the lam for over four years on a charge of selling cocaine. The $10-a-head event, billed as a "Bring Abbie Home" rally, was in his honor, and Lawyer William Kunstler gave the impression that he might show up and turn himself in to police. Said the radicals' favorite attorney: "He's tired of running. We're hopeful." Many of those who came to the festivity wore Abbie Hoffman masks and signs claiming that they were the fugitive, but Hoffman himself...
...wonderful position for the defense counsel," says Heinz Brangsch, executive director of the West German Lawyers Association. "Then came terrorism and a breakdown of our position." When the terrorists came to trial, radical lawyers manipulated the liberal rules to protract proceedings, turning them into politicized circuses. Unlike William Kunstler and other radical American lawyers, they did not even have to worry about contempt citations; none exist under German...
...tyrannical Supreme Court is basically under the control of five judges, four of whom were appointed by Nixon," Kunstler said. He said the Court has largely destroyed the Bill of Rights...
Kuntsler asserted that by sanctioning immunity, the court has destroyed the Fifth Amendment. "You can also be imprisoned without a trial," said Kunstler, adding that the Fourth Amendment has been negated with open search warrants...