Legal Opinion
In Re Dellinger
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided December 6, 1973No. 72 CR 925PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER OF THE COURT
GIGNOUX, District Judge.
This case arose from the 1969 trial of the so-called “Chicago 7,” five of whom were found guilty of violations of the 1968 Federal Anti-Riot Act (18 U.S.C. § 2101) after a four and a half month jury trial. 1 At the conclusion of the trial, the trial judge, acting under Fed. R.Crim.P. 42(a), summarily convicted the defendants and their two trial attorneys (the nine original defendants herein) on 159 specifications of contempt of court, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 401(1). 2 The contempt sentences ranged from two months and 18 days for…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- Illinois v. AllenSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Bloom v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Cooke v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1925
- Walker v. City of BirminghamSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Cheff v. SchnackenbergSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
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3Cited by12 opinions
- Commonwealth v. GarrisonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1978
- Commonwealth v. MayberrySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1974
- In the Matter of David T. DellingerCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1974
- In Re Jacob J. Gordon v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1979
- United States v. David T. DellingerCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1981
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