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Sta a ear nr Vion. md ABBOTT H. HOFFMAN "motions. We had 36 motions, we drew 36 blanks. One of the motions was, ‘Hey, judge, the Government has just admitted that it wire taps our phones. Uh, seems to be a fourth amendment to the Constitution says that that's an invasion of privacy and the Supreme Court just ruled that that's kind of illegal and stuff.’ ‘We'll get to it later,' said Julie, ‘after we get ‘um. We'll have a hearing later on.' So we're gonna do this like whole fantastic trial, you know it cost like two and a half million dollars~-by the way, we...the judge's final bit was to assess the defendants with the cost of the whole trial. Kind of another thing unprecedented in the Federal court system. But after that, then he's going to have a hearing on the wire tapping. He locked up four of the lawyers, unprecedented. And so, the days just kept wearing on. On and on like that. ‘Want a six-week delay' says Bobby Seale ‘so my attorney, Charles Gary (phonetic), can come in and defend me. He's my lawyer. He's my lawyer of record, I want him here. He's in the hospital. We need a six-week delay.’ Now anybody here who's been in trial knows that they can get a delay. I have 41 fuckin trials. It's always delayed. Does anybody here, like you want a delay? In fact, the judge refused Bobby Seale that delay. Right after our trial was over there was another case, the next case on his calendar. And the lawyer came up and said, ‘I'd like a six-week' -- the same time -- 'I'd like a six-week delay to 21