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:o 0 0 1 8 - K l a - - - ' - a .- . . . . Tbe trial 'of the self-styhd "Ccnoptracy 0" in the U. S. District Court in .verba clcsheo ktt?cea tho defense and Judge Julius J. Hoffhm. Much af the time In court has been devoted t o motten involving four defense hWrS whom JWgc Ifoflb~~ held in'contunpt of court for their failure t o show up when the trial began on Wednesday, September 216th. Thcy notified the comt of their vithdraval iraar the aasc by telegram and the JUge objccted to the* fall- to appear end withdraw fondly. Their arre3tuao ordered on tbe first day of the trial atad on IMday, the 26th, two of the fom, ?.tichael A. Ti-, a fomer Washington, D.C., 1e:ver now living in CMfomlo, and Gerald B. kfco\rrt of r k w York City, b ~ r c Jailed without bond, penciing a hearing on thdny. Late In the WJ, harrever, they were released on their own recognlzancc pcidiw firrther clmal, after a motion vas-flled i n the U. S. Court of ?r.?pcals. A Fedeml jui@z Lo Sari Francisco refused t o enforce Roberts ofthc Bay m a , because the warrants foiled t o state an of Pease e hrrs gotten m e t o a controvercial. start m k e 3 by - 9 - . . A r r e s t wn-ta a@lnst the other tvo, hJlchncl A. Kennedy and Dennis -her tension developed early In the trial when, m a bcinc lntrailuecd by the prosecution, Jerry Rubln,drccked in n yellow sad red- - strlpcd p1.0 ahlrt, m e and vaved; Abbie Hoffban, i n e. tunic trlth Indian desims, blew the Jury a hiss; nad TOE Hnydcn, in a blousc =de of Eerkelcy liberation flags, ruse vlth a clenched fist ge3ture- and Judge? Hof- reprioDoaaed them. . 0 The. jury ua3 empaneled on the second day of the t r i n l Omid VZU'I- ou3 charwa and ccnmter charges; ( I t hmi been descrlbcd 89 a "mlddlc- aged, Middle America $,my" of tuo men and ten wcmen, two of whom are h c p c o ) ; aud presentation of ar-nts began on the third day, after Wo days of 6pnfring betveen Judge Hof'ftmn and defense attonrep wm. 14. tCunotler nnd konoml I. Weinglaos, during which about twenty-five defense motions wekc denied. The pmecution promised to prove that tho eioht defandnnts vera in contcrctvith each othex-pnd hnd cor.zplrcd t o "use the mpopuhkity of the war in Vlctnom nnd the pcoplc whg cane t o Chicrr(lo to protcEt...to create a situation that would brlng Q p m - cal. confrontation batvecn protesten and plicc". Dcfcnae Cainscl Kun::tler, iqhilr opcniw, dccland that the defcndmtc went to ttrc con- vention ?or' tho purposc'oi 1mfU protest; but thnt the police "cz!hnrked onen consplm-cy of tCrscrk,,bruttil actlon" nnd thnt "thc reo1 conspir- acy In t h i s case w p ~ i n c o n s p l r a c y - t w ~ l m d p m n t the pro*& ' . - q u M t the i n Vietnam". - . . 'a - - 8 -.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... ............ .... ,.- .. .*.. ..... L. .!. - - . . . . . 2 I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . --.-..: #, _. , ? . . . ... . . . . - . ._ i I __ ___ . . . . . - . . . .... r I- .-