Leonard Irving Weinglass was a US criminal defense lawyer and constitutional law advocate, best known for his defense of participants in the 1960s counterculture.
12 Facts About Leonard Weinglass
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Leonard Weinglass was admitted to the bar in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and California.
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Leonard Weinglass taught criminal trial advocacy at the University of Southern California Law School from 1974 to 1976, and at the Peoples College of Law, in Los Angeles, California from 1974 to 1975.
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Leonard Weinglass was born on August 27,1933, to a Jewish family in Belleville, New Jersey.
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Leonard Weinglass graduated from Yale Law School in 1958, then served as a captain judge advocate in the United States Air Force from 1959 to 1961.
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Leonard Weinglass participated in the defense of Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo, who were charged with leaking the Pentagon Papers and whose trial ended in a dismissal of all charges.
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Leonard Weinglass was the lead defense attorney for Mumia Abu-Jamal for several years.
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In 1972, Leonard Weinglass took on the defense of John Sinclair, Chairman of the White Panther Party in Detroit, Michigan.
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In 1985, Leonard Weinglass successfully defended Stephen Bingham, an attorney accused of smuggling a handgun to George Jackson in San Quentin Prison setting off an escape attempt that resulted in the death of Jackson, two other inmates, and three prison guards.
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Leonard Weinglass was the lead appellate attorney for the Cuban Five from 2002 until his death in 2011.
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Up until the last year of his life, Leonard Weinglass continued to take on cases.
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Leonard Weinglass died on March 23,2011, aged 77, from pancreatic cancer, in New York City.