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Marlise James's book The People's Lawyers is a collection of interviews with poverty lawyers, civil rights lawyers, radical and minority lawyers. James includes the stars of the radical law set: William Kunstler, Charles Garry and Len Weinglass...
...latest revelation of skulduggery scarcely strengthens the Government's case against Ellsberg. If it turns out that the prosecution made use of tainted evidence gathered from the burglary, a mistrial could be declared or some or all charges could be thrown out. Defense Counsel Leonard Weinglass insisted that the burden of proof was on the Government to show that none of the evidence was tainted. He said that he would ask the court to call both Liddy and Hunt to the stand...
...Well, I'm delighted it came up," defense lawyer Leonard I. Weinglass told The Crimson late Saturday night. "I think it takes the issues in the case far beyond the case, because it deals not only with the revelation of the Pentagon Papers now, but the ongoing operation of government...
...Chief Attorneys Leonard Boudin and Leonard Weinglass plus the three other trial lawyers begin gathering in their offices located five blocks from the courtroom; legal aides report on points they have spent the night researching. Meanwhile the fund raisers are arriving to call East Coast donors. Even during the trial, the offices, emblazoned with antiwar posters and looking more like a political headquarters than a law firm, continue to buzz. The phones are always ringing, the Xerox machine never stops. But the heart of the office day begins at 4:30 p.m., when the lawyers return from court and meet...
...Weinglass spoke for two hours on the disparities of the Chicago 7 trial, and cited individual contempt charges made against the defendants and the lawyers by Judge Julius Hoffman. Weinglass said. however, that contempt charges probably would be dropped in the appeal case...