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IN RE DELLINGER

No. 18294.

461 F.2d 389 (1972)

In the Matter of David DELLINGER et al., Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 11, 1972.

Leave to File Petition for Rehearing Denied July 6, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard I. Weinglass, Morton Stavis, Newark, N. J., James Reif, Center for Constitutional Rights, New York City, William W. Brackett, Thomas M. Haney, Stuart S. Ball, Chicago, Ill., Anthony G. Amsterdam, Stanford, Cal., William M. Kunstler, Center for Constitutional Rights, New York City, James B. Moran, Chicago, Ill., Arthur Kinoy, Rutgers University School of Law, Newark, N. J., Doris Peterson, Center for Constitutional Rights, Helene E. Schwartz, New York City, Thomas P. Sullivan, Chicago, Ill., for appellant.

Charles R. Nesson, Cambridge, Mass., for Wm. M. Kunstler and Leonard I. Weinglass.

James R. Thompson, U. S. Atty., Gary Starkman, Asst. U. S. Atty., Chicago, Ill., for appellee.

Alan S. Ganz, Henry F. Field, Robert J. Vollen, Owen Fiss, Neil Komesar, Chicago, Ill., for amicus curiae.

Before FAIRCHILD, CUMMINGS, and PELL, Circuit Judges.

CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge.

After this Anti-riot Act case against seven of these defendants was submitted to the jury, acting under Rule 42(a) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, the trial judge summarily convicted them and their two trial attorneys of contempt of court in violation of 18 U.S. C. § 401(1). All nine now appeal from the findings of contempt and the sentences imposed upon them.

In the certificates of contempt, the court found that the...

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