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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...
...underground, Black Radical H. Rap Brown surfaced in a 1971 Manhattan gunfight with police. Shot and arrested, he and three others were charged with the robbery of patrons of a West Side bar and the attempted murder of three policemen. Despite the five-lawyer defense team, which included William Kunstler, Brown won a limited right to act as his own co-counsel. In a rambling opening statement he told the jury, "Truth is the eye of the storm and I myself no more than a raindrop looking for a fertile place to fall." He never directly answered the charges...
...despite their efforts, sporadic shooting continued-and so did the negotiations. Attorney William Kunstler, known for his defense of the Chicago Seven, arrived at Wounded Knee to represent the leaders of the American Indian Movement (AIM). Carrying fresh proposals in a brown briefcase, two Indian lawyers dashed back and forth in a Cadillac between the Bureau of Indian Affairs office in Pine Ridge and the AIM fortress. A major sticking point was the Justice Department's threat to arrest any Indian militants leaving the trading post and confiscate their weapons as evidence. It was largely to carry out that...
...Burghardt's defense. "There is no way Arthur can walk into a room and not be noticed." Burghardt is in fact 6 ft. 6 in., weighs 250 Ibs., and he has a deep, booming voice. "The moment he went into prison," says his chief defense attorney, William Kunstler, "he was doomed...
...jury implying that the defense counsel was "inept, bumptious or untrustworthy, or that his case lacked merit." Cumulatively, these "gratuitous" remarks "must have telegraphed to the jury the judge's contempt for the defense." One example cited was Judge Hoffman's snide comment when Defense Attorney William Kunstler objected that he did not understand a particular ruling: "You will have to see a lawyer, Mr. Kunstler, if you don't understand...