Reflections on the Chicago Conspiracy Trial: The Image of Justice.

CHICAGO (Ill.); ILLINOIS

Focuses on the Chicago Conspiracy Trial in the federal district court in Chicago, Illinois, in which eight defendants were charged with conspiring to cross state lines with intent of inciting riot. Allegation of violating federal anti-riot statute against the defendants; Conflict of the statute with constitutional norms about the freedom of speech and dissent; Discussion on the loopholes in the statute; Problem regarding definition of violence; Information on the proceedings of the trial; View that the trial is an example of confrontation politics; Discussion on the role of judges in the trial; Opinion that the government will lose whichever way the trial comes out.