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Incredible Statement. Chief Defense Attorney William Kunstler, reduced to tears of resentment and frustration, pleaded with the judge: "Take me next. Let me be next." Kunstler got four years and 13 days for contempt; his associate, Leonard Weinglass, was sentenced to 20 months and five days. Hoffman told them: "Crime, if it is on the rise, is due in large part to the fact that waiting in the wings are lawyers who are willing to go beyond professional responsibility, professional rights, professional duties, in their defense of a criminal." That statement, like others from Hoffman, seemed incredible; American judicial tradition...
...failing to appear in court, even though they had only helped to prepare the defense. He barred such potentially important defense witnesses as former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and Civil Rights Leader Ralph Abernathy. Before the jury, he praised Chief Prosecutor Thomas Aquinas Foran and put down Defense Attorney Weinglass by consistently mispronouncing his name...
...right to defend himself, Hoffman had him bound and gagged, and eventually handed him a four-year sentence for contempt. The judge severed Scale's case, thus reducing the Chicago Eight to the Seven. Time and again, Hoffman ruled out evidence that Defense Attorneys William Kunstler and Leonard Weinglass tried to present, including the testimony of Ramsey Clark. The wranglings forced Hoffman to send the jury from the courtroom so often that it did not hear roughly a third of what went...
...jury is hung, defense lawyers speculated for the first time yesterday. "It's obvious that the jury is not able to reach a decision after four days of deliberations," Leonard I. Weinglass, one of the two defense attorneys, said...
Trial counsel Leonard Weinglass, who also spoke, called the Chicago proceedings" an incredible exercise." Erie Sykes of the National Lawyers Guild, which sponsored the meeting, announced plans for demonstrations against the trial at federal courthouses November 13 and in Washington November...