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ABBOTT H. HOFFMAN “already, you know. Who votes? I mean how many of the people vote last time? I mean, well, uh, vote... So, uh, I can't vote ‘cause I'ma felon. Now the judge---" (shouting in mocking manner) "'You get five years and you can't vote!'" (Laughter) "Well, so right away, you know, they select from the voters list and there's a room filled up like this, about 1500 pecple in there, prospective jurors. And the judge says, ‘I'1i ask you only one question. Can you be fair?' So at that about a third of the people got up and walked out. And they walked out, they said, because the judge who had just read the indictment as if he was sending us to the gas chamber. He has this way of like reading in tonal qualities that you'll hear when the record comes out, but it's not apparent on the transcript. And he starts off, - he finally gets the jury together, and he starts off by introducin; AUPY attarnnaue SY ee = Se Se aaue yy 7 s - a able prosecutors in America. Here's Mr. Charles Kunstler from New York. He comes from New York, we'll have to show him how we do i a things in Chicago. Here's Mr. Len Weinthrob, Wein... What is t 4 your name? Weinknob, yeah. He's from Newark. They had riots = there.' There's old Julie. And on and on it went for five and a = half months. The open day locked up four of our lawyers 'cause 8 4s = - 3] Ny ot wey they didn't show up. They only sent, they had worked on pretrial 20