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TIIE OF TfiE HGttT (continued) The trial of the eight leadem o f the toev Lurt radical groups held reopomible far the Chicago riots at the Dewcrutic National convention in chicago in ~-fflg68, (Ramie mtm, m= balliagcr, John Proinas, Top Hayden, Abbie RofYlnan, Jerxy Rubin, Bobby Smile snrf h e Weioer), mt undar way ao scheduled on 21, September 1969, at the Pederal Bullding in Chicago. Despite8 series of attsmptr on the part of The Caaapinq, aa the calla itself, and its attomeye . t o delay the trial, itr openlag M(I M S W C ~ when on 23 &eptcnkr Supreare Court Justice )tarshall refWed t o grant a delay which the defeud8nt;e 8oagbt om the -8 that one of their attar-. aeya is 111. Each defendant faces a poa8ible ten year jall eentence sred a $2O,OOO fine, lf feu@ guilty of conspiring t o Incite the 0 riots. out proceer. AttOMCya for the defeme are roHng that they expect it to last tvo month6 or The Conspiracy aud the gnnrps Its member8 represent plmn tbat before its campletlor! anti-nu dcmanstrationa vi11 have wept from Chlcsgo finally to Wmihlngton, D.C., where a forty-elght bow "msrth egafnst . death" and a mmeeioa rdllp arc scheduled for mid-RovclPber. JyIgiw from its i u i t i a l rersion, the t r l a l v l l l k a long dram - sad acme estlmnte three t o seven months. t o C W 6 e 8 Rod C l t i a B t b o U @ l & the CauntV, back mcCrga and During the first day of the trhl, according t o a Washi clalmed that their clients can't get a fair trial ln,Chicsgo end have elso c u d judicial prejudice end saught t o hawe Judge Juliw J. Roffban disqualified.) The proeecution accused the defense attorneye of contempt ia their publicity ctuqaign. Seven 0f the eFght'defead- ants awered the ju&e by rnenasntarilg refu8ilrg t0 atand when he entered rants for four defense attarneye who failed t o shov up, after addslag the pmeecuting attorney by telegrarathat they had vithdram fropa the case. Be ruled that they numt appear in the court and vithdrav offici- d l y . A t day'8 aod, little paosrcrr hed been mnde in the case and ton Post account,: "The Jud@ bawled out the defenee ettoroeys. * * the -". A8 the trial k-, Judge i e e w d arrest WBr- 6t a d J w I I t the ?elOCtlO8 O f jurOn IUd 3-t k-0 The* trial is ieeu as hnving dual slgaificsnce. It is 'the flkt prooecution Mder the 1968 civil R i g b t s Act'm anti-riot p d e i o n e , vhich prohibit the croseiag of state linea to provoke disordere and la, therefore, a teat of the limit6 to radical dissent ln'thio country; and l e a'maJor event far th, rad-ement vbich pill s e m a . - - -8 - 5+