Leonard Weinglass, attorney at law and defender of civil and human rights, will speak on “Justice and Hypocrisy: The Case of the Cuban Five,” at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, March 17, at the University of New Mexico School of Law, room 2402.
Weinglass will speak on the case of Antonio Guerrero, one of five Cubans convicted of charges including espionage and conspiracy to murder and serving sentences from 15 years to life. The five Cubans have appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals in Atlanta, arguing that they were in south Florida doing counter-terrorism work against Cuban American organizations with a history of terrorism against Cuba and that an impartial verdict would be impossible for any jury in Miami due to the influence of right wing Cuban Americans there.
Weinglass is nationally known for his role on the legal team of the Chicago 7 in the 1970s. His clients have included Mumia Abdul Jamal and Kiko Martínez, the latter a Chicano activist attorney accused of mailing letter bombs in Denver in 1973, whose papers are available at the Center for Southwest Research in Zimmerman Library.