Rudy Giuliani is an American lawyer, businessman, public speaker, and the former mayor of New York City, who is best known for his leadership in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001. He received his licence for law in New York, after graduating magna cum laude from New York University School of Law.
Sep 06, 1995 · Giant-killer Gerry Spence has been bested by Bill Clinton. It happened the night before at the president's birthday party, says the famed trial lawyer, relaxing on the deck of his mountain log home.
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Gerald Leonard Spence (born January 8, 1929) is a semi-retired American trial lawyer. He is a member of the American Trial Lawyers Hall of Fame. Spence has never lost a criminal case either as a prosecutor or a defense attorney, and has not lost a civil case since 1969.
Death and legacy In late 1995, Kunstler died in New York City of heart failure at the age of 76.
September 4, 1995William Kunstler / Date of death
Kunstler was convicted of two counts of contempt, but was not sentenced to prison. Following the Chicago Seven trial, Kunstler said he felt he would sink into oblivion. But he was soon back in the national news in 1971 when rioting broke out at Attica State Prison in New York.
Admirers saw him as a brilliant lawyer, and a skillful and courageous litigator, while his critics saw him as a showoff and publicity seeker. Nor did Mr. Kunstler entirely disagree with his detractors. "To some extent, that has the ring of truth," he once said.Sep 5, 1995
New York, NYWilliam Kunstler / Place of birth
Kunstler is perhaps best known for his defense in the 1960s of liberal rabble rousers Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, and the other defendants in the Chicago Seven case.
From 1964 to 1972, Kunstler served as director of the ACLU. In 1966, he also co-founded the Center for Constitutional Rights. By the late 1960s, Kunstler was representing black militants H. Rap Brown and Stokely Carmichael, as well as white anti-war radicals such as Abbie Hoffman and Tom Hayden.
Prior to signing on as Assistant U. S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois (a job he left shortly after the Chicago Seven Trial) in 1964, Schultz had attended DePaul Law School, where he was Editor-in Chief of the Law Review. Shultz now practices in the firm of Foran & Schultz.
Portrait of the Chicago 7 and their lawyers. From left: lawyer Leonard Weinglass, Rennie Davis, Abbie Hoffman, Lee Weiner, David Dellinger, John Froines, Jerry Rubin, Tom Hayden, and lawyer William Kunstler. On February 18, 1970, each of the seven defendants was acquitted of conspiracy.Apr 19, 2021
4 years 13 daysCHICAGO, Feb. 15—The two defense attorneys and three of the defendants in the Chicago conspiracy trial were sentenced to prison for contempt of court today. Judge Julius J. Hoffman con victed William M., Kunstler, one of the attorneys, on 24 counts of contempt and sentenced him to 4 years 13 days in a Federal prison.Feb 16, 1970