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Leonard I. Weinglass, Lawyer, Dies at 77; Defended Renegades and the Notorious

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Leonard I. Weinglass, Lawyer, Dies at 77; Defended Renegades and the Notorious By BRUCE WEBER Published: March 24, 2011 Correction Appended Leonard I. Weinglass, perhaps the nation?s pre-eminent progressive defense lawyer, who represented political renegades, government opponents and notorious criminal defendants in a half century of controversial cases, including the Chicago Seven, the Pentagon Papers and the Hearst kidnapping, died on Wednesday. He was 77 and lived in Manhattan. The cause of death, at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, was pancreatic cancer, said Debbie Smith, a friend. Mr. Weinglass was working as a lawyer in racially torn Newark in the late 1960s when he met Tom Hayden, a founder of the activist group Students for a Democratic Society, who was working there as well...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 27, 2011 (boomark / email).