Word: weinglass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some attorneys maintained that Bailey should have moved sooner to suppress some crucial evidence seized in the San Francisco apartment of William and Emily Harris. They noted that the Harrises' lawyer, Leonard Weinglass, succeeded in getting the same evidence excluded from their Los Angeles trial. But other lawyers point out that since the rules of search and seizure are more liberal in California courts than in federal courts, such a move by Bailey was bound to fail anyway...
...Weinglass, who represented Tom Hayden at the 1969 Chicago conspiracy trial and Anthony Russo in the Pentagon Papers case, was radicalized through community involvement in Newark, New Jersey...
...college student in Washington, D.C., Weinglass worked on Capitol Hill as the operator of a private elevator car for then-Vice-President Nixon and Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson (Although he never got to know Johnson, Weinglass struck up a sort of friendship with Nixon. "Nixon and I used to talk a lot. He was very nice." Questioned by reporters after the Chicago trial, Nixon admitted that he remembered Weinglass...
After ROTC training during college, Weinglass went to Yale Law School, served in the air force as a legal officer, and set up his own practice in Newark. There he met Hayden and was introduced into radical law when he took the case of John Butenko, an engineer who was charged with espionage. Since then, Weinglass has represented Imamu Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and Newark Mayor Kenneth Gibson...
...Weinglass believes the court system has potential value. "If there were Justice Douglases sitting on every one of the twelve thousand judicial spots that there are in the country, I think the court system would be pretty good," he told James...