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Invitation to Resistance. The upheaval that Mitchell fears is encouraged by the Administration's attitude. Leonard's disingenuous remark several weeks ago that he would not have enough "bodies" to enforce desegregation encourages resistance, according to Gary Greenberg. Greenberg had been senior trial lawyer in the Civil Rights Division until Leonard fired him for protesting the slowdown in desegregation. He said: "The invitation to reopen the era of massive resistance is inherent in such an attitude. It makes it infinitely more difficult to bring about obedience...
...highly unlikely that any will. Most newsmen consider their relationships with their sources as sacrosanct as those of a lawyer with a client or a priest with a penitent. They react to one of their number moonlighting for a federal agency as they do to police, FBI or other investigative agents posing as newsmen. Although FBI agents were specifically ordered not to pose as reporters in June 1968 by then Attorney General Ramsey Clark, many journalists suspect that the practice continues among plainclothes police. "It may be argued," wrote Columnist Murray Kempton, "that reporters do not deserve to be trusted...
Kadish agree that the very least Hoffman could have done was to turn over the citations to another judge, who would not have been so vulnerable to charges of bias. Or Hoffman could have allowed Seale a lawyer, provided for formal arraignment, trial by jury and other normal criminal safeguards...
Despite Hoffman's disapproval, Seale claims that there was good reason for his courtroom outbursts; the judge, he said, had denied him proper representation at the conspiracy trial. Two weeks before the trial, Seale asked for a delay because his own lawyer, Charles Garry of San Francisco, was about to have gall-bladder surgery. The judge denied the delay on the ground that the defendants had enough other lawyers to represent them. Indeed, in Garry's absence, William Kunstler filed a notice of appearance that enabled him to act as counsel for Seale. Garry says that he advised...
...chief counsel for the Panthers, Garry, who is white, had represented Scale previously. "If Hoffman knew anything about the Panthers," says Professor Harry Kalvin Jr. of the University of Chicago Law School, "he would have understood that Garry is the only lawyer that Scale trusts, and therefore that his request for a postponement was not just a stunt to delay the trial." In Garry's absence, adds Professor Abraham Goldstein of Yale Law School, Hoffman should have allowed Scale to act as his own counsel and to personally cross-examine witnesses...