13 Legal Questions Raised By The Trial Of The Chicago 8 Minus 1 Plus 2
June, 1970
The Chicago riot-conspiracy case came to a temporary end on February 18, 1970. The trial's histrionics and its veneer of violence have obscured significant legal issues that will receive a full hearing in appellate courts. The most important of these legal questions are:1. Is the Federal statute under which the Chicago Eight were indicted constitutionally valid? Counsel for the defendants plus the A. C. L. U. and the Chicago Council of Lawyers can be expected to argue that the vaguely worded Ant...
