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Poster in support of the "Conspiracy 8" The Chicago Seven, originally the Chicago Eight and also known as the Conspiracy Eight or Conspiracy Seven, were seven defendants – Rennie Davis, David Dellinger, John Froines, Tom Hayden, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, and Lee Weiner – charged by the United States Department of Justice with conspiracy, crossing state lines with intent to incite a riot ...
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Calling court cases "the trial of the century" is a traditional bit of American hyperbole, like calling a circus "The Greatest Show on Earth". Nearly every juicy tabloid trial in our history was called the "trial of the century" by somebody. "Every time I turn around, there's a new trial of the century," said defense attorney F. Lee Bailey.
Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr. (November 19, 1904 – August 29, 1971) [1] and Richard Albert Loeb (/ ˈ l oʊ b /; June 11, 1905 – January 28, 1936), usually referred to collectively as Leopold and Loeb, were two American students at the University of Chicago who kidnapped and murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks in Chicago, Illinois, United States, on May 21, 1924.
The Trial of the Seven Bishops by John Rogers Herbert The trial took place at the Court of King's Bench in Westminster Hall on 29 June, with James confident of victory. Successive purges of the judiciary over the previous three years meant it was largely staffed by loyalists, while the jury selected by the Sheriffs of the City of London ...
These trials are/were held by the authority of justiciaries of a nation, justiciaries of a nation's military, or they were held as international courts and tribunals. The main article for this category is Trial .
Lee Weiner was born in 1939 [4]: 13 and raised on the South Side of Chicago. [4]: 13–14, 20 Weiner is the only member of the Chicago Seven from Chicago.[3] [5] When the trial of the Chicago Seven began in September 1969, Weiner was a doctoral candidate and teaching assistant at Northwestern University, had previously graduated from the University of Illinois, studied political philosophy at ...