Leonard Weinglass

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Leonard I. Weinglass is a U.S. lawyer and civil rights activist. Weinglass graduated from Yale Law School in 1958. he served as a Captain, Judge Advocate, United States Air Force from 1959 to 1961. He was admitted to the bar in the states of New Jersey, New York and Connecticut.

He taught criminal trial advocacy at the University of Southern California Law School from 1974 to 1976, and at the People's College of Law, in Los Angeles, California from 1974 to 1975.

Leonard Weinglass is a frequent defense attorney for those involved in left-wing politics. He was the attorney for Kathy Boudin and William Kunstler. Kunstler and Weinglass represented the Chicago 7 in their 1968 trial.

Weinglass represented Angela Davis and Ron Kaufman, Jane Fonda, Bill and Emily Harris — kidnappers of Patty Hearst. He is currently an appellate attorney for the Cuban Five whose convictions were overturned in August 2005.