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Abbie Hoffman — Part 28
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Abbott Howard Hoffman
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How should have the Judge reacted towards ;
you?
The Judge called us names. The Judge
said....well there is a transcript
coming out and it is an edited version,
calied "Tales of Hoffman" and there are
a number of books by me, there's the movie,
you won't believe what the Judge did! The
Judge would say things in front of the
jury for example "Mr. Kunstler you're
from New York you wouldn't understand the
way we do things here in Chicago". He
always made a point of that in front of
the jury. He would say "Why don't you
carry on the defense if you call it that",
things like that. No we harassed the
Judge, youreright...we gave him five
years in prison, youre right.
Might it....
The Judge is a millionaire we cave...Wwé
sentenced him to die in the Drakes Tower
Hotel. He eats $500 plate dinners for
fund raising events.
Abbie, are we inclined to believe that
the Judge called you derogatory names
before you called him derogatory names?
I mean the first day...
Are you saying that he called you
derogatory names first?
On the opening day of the trial...it
was picking a jury, it was much like
people like yourself, 1500 people all
Spread out...you weren't allowed to
ask them questions, our lawyers weren't
allowed, the Judge asked them if they
could be fair, at that a part of the
audience got up and walked out. They
said they walked out because they heard
them read the indictment and it sounded
like we were already guilty. A black
man raised his hand and said “I don't
know if I can be fair because my wife
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