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...Berman Abram Chayes Morris L. Cohen Vern Countryman Jerome P. Facher Richard H. Field William B. Gould Charles M. Haar Livingston Hall David R. Herwitz Phillip B. Heymann Morton J. Horwitz Benjamin Kaplan Lance Liebman Louis Loss Karen S. Metzger Frank I. Michelman Arthur R. Miller Charles R. Nesson Albert M. Sacks Frank E.A. Sander Austin W. Scott Henry J. Steiner John P. Sullivan Stanley S. Surrey Donald T. Trautman Laurence H. Tribe Donald F. Turner James Vorenberg Robert B. Washington, Jr. Lloyd L. Weinreb David Westfall Ralph U. Whitten
Thus began long months of court arguments on Ellsberg's behalf for Charles R. Nesson '60, professor of Law, and Leonard B. Boudin, the prominent civil liberties lawyer who was visiting professor of Law during 1970-71. Ellsberg is now on trial in Los Angeles, where he faces a possible 20-year prison term and a $20,000 fine...
Court proceedings dragged on in Boston most of the summer before U.S. Magistrate Peter Princi and Federal District Court Judge W. Arthur Garrity ruled that Ellsberg must stand trial in Los Angeles when grand jury there returned indictments against him. Boudin and Nesson had sought to have the trial moved to Boston, and they had argued at various times that the government may have used illegal wiretaps to obtain evidence used in the Los Angeles indictment...
Charles R. Nesson '60, professor of Law, petitioned President Nixon on August 13 to release three Air Force enlisted men imprisoned in Vietnam for refusing to carry weapons. Acting as president of the Lawyers Military Defense Committee--a group formed last year to give free legal representation to servicemen in Vietnam--Nesson asked the President to defer the three men's sentences during appeal of their convictions...
...Nesson previously asked for a similar restraining order in District Court...