Leonard Weinglass, the attorney for the “Cuban 5” — the Castro spies captured, tried, convicted, and imprisoned for espionage and murder — has died at the age of 77. Besides defending a vile group of murderous Castro operatives, Weinglass made a career of defending the scourge of the earth.
Leonard I. Weinglass, perhaps the nation’s pre-eminent progressive defense lawyer, who represented political renegades, government opponents and notorious criminal defendants in a half century of controversial cases, including the Chicago Seven, the Pentagon Papers and the Hearst kidnapping, died on Wednesday. He was 77 and lived in Manhattan.
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More recently, Mr. Weinglass was involved in the death-row appeals of , whose conviction in the 1981 killing of a Philadelphia police officer has been shrouded in allegations of racism, police corruption and judicial bias; and the Cuban 5, who were convicted in 2001 of espionage against the United States but who say they were monitoring Miami-based terrorist groups that target Cuba.
There is justice on the other side, as surely Mr. Weinglass has found out.
Hell is getting mighty crowded.