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...Leonard Weinglass, Chicago 7 defense lawyer, told a group of 150 students at the Law School last night that he, Bill Kunstler, and Abbie Hoffman will be facing new conspiracy charges for speeches made after the Chicago 7 trial...
...Weinglass told his audience, "We're fighting in a jungle and the only way we can survive is to become jungle lawyers...
WHILE errors in judicial rulings are an expected part of the legal process, the amount of personal bile that a U. S. District Court judge let flow from his mouth is much more astounding. Hoffman's refusal to learn defense attorney Leonard Weinglass' name-the Judge called him Weinstein, Feinstein, Weineruss, Fineglass, Weinramer, and a host of others-emerges as only one part of a generally snide approach to the defense. In the same vein, Hoffman alluded to William Kunstler's "comic book defense" and embroiled himself in the type of petty harassment one would expect of Abbie Hoffman...
...Observed Weinglass: "Where you had a prosecutor who was honestly and sincerely convinced that these men were evil and were out to overthrow the Government, and you had the Seven also honestly and sincerely convinced that the Government which was prosecuting them is fascistic-given those factors, you could not have an orderly proceeding." Attorney Kunstler argued: "It's against the law to kill-yet people kill all the time to protect their families and the law allows it. What's to happen in a courtroom when the judge commits an injustice?" The regular appellate process...
...Lesson. Obviously Hoffman had good reason to cite Kunstler and Weinglass, to say nothing of their clients. But the size of the lawyers' sentences left many legal experts aghast-and concerned about the possible effect on some lawyers who may now be less willing to represent controversial clients vigorously. Said San Francisco Attorney Naomi Litvin Helm: "The judge had to do something. But four years for acting up in a courtroom is a hell of a long time when you consider what some people get for an actual crime of violence...