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Dates: during 1970-1979
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AFTER five months of insult to the judicial process, the trial of the Chicago Seven ended. A glassy-eyed jury of ten women and two men retired to ponder whether the defendants were guilty of "conspiracy to incite" the riots that bloodied Chicago streets during the 1968 Democratic Convention. Appeals...
"Police Riot." When the law was first proposed, the then Attorney General Ramsey Clark testified against it, underscoring the view of many legal scholars that its blunderbuss language was constitutionally questionable and might pose a threat to legitimate political activity. One major concern: a jury might infer that the organizers...
Under the blurry federal conspiracy doctrine, Foran had to show only that before the defendants got to Chicago they had knowingly agreed to incite riots, and that after they got there one of them had done something about it. The star prosecution witnesses were four undercover agents, who said that...
THERE are two possible explanations for SMC's evaluation of the state of the movement. It could be, as the radical minority at the conference charged, that the Young Socialist Alliance (YSA)-dominated national SMC deviously railroaded its programs through the convention by controlling the chair and thus the flow...
Asked about charges of police misconduct during the Chicago Convention and the police raids at Columbia, Fink said that police are "just human beings like everybody else."