Next, Abbott Hoffman. Will the marshals take care of Mr. Hayden.
MR. FROINES: See you in jail.
THE COURT: We will now deal with the defendant Hoffman.
Specification 1: On September 26, during the opening statement by the Government, defendant Hoffman rose and blew a kiss to the jurors. Official Transcript, Page 9. 1 day
Specification 2: On October 23, well after the date of the Court's order sequestering the jury and ordering the jury that they may see no newspapers, the defendant Hoffman held up a newspaper so the jurors might see the headline in the courtroom. The following colloquy occurred:
"MR. SCHULTZ: If the Court please - -
MR. KUNSTLER: I would rather be directed.
MR. SCHULTZ: Before you direct him, if you are going
to direct Mr. Kunstler, I would like to make one observation for the record.
At 12:30 this morning or 12:30 early this afternoon, when the jury was
adjourned, after the jury stood up, defendant Hoffman - - in fact, he had
the same article that he has in front of him there - -
MR. HOFFMAN: Yes, I was going to show it to - -
MR. SCHULTZ: He held up the newspaper for them to
see and - -
MR. HOFFMAN: It ain't a newspaper. It is the
Berkeley Tribe and doesn't tell lies, so it isn't a newspaper.
THE COURT: I wonder if you would ask your client
- - you know, when I was out there trying cases, if my clients started
to talk when another lawyer was speaking, Mr. Kunstler, I told him to remain
quiet.
Now, I can direct him to remain quiet. The
United States Attorney was speaking to the Court. He is entitled
to be heard just as you are entitled to be heard. We are not running
a circus. This happens to be a court- -even though there are those
who don't share views.
MR. KUNSTLER: I would suggest, your Honor, then,
that Mr Hoffman be permitted to respond and not be interrupted --
THE COURT: I will not hear from your clients.
MR. HOFFMAN: I was just trying to be helpful, your
Honor.
THE COURT: I will not hear from your client.
I will let Mr. Schultz finish his observation." Official Transcript, Pages
3,866-67. 7 days
Specification 3: On October 28, at the close of the session, the defendant Hoffman refused to rise in the customary manner when directed to do so by the marshal. Official Transcript, Pages 4,618-19. 1 day
Specification 4: On October 29, the following colloquy occurred:
"THE COURT: I will ask you to sit down, sir.
You have a lawyer to speak for you. I haven't been told that you
represent all of these defendants, either.
MR. HOFFMAN: We have been told that they are defendants,
too.
MR. FORAN: May the record show that that was the
defendant Hoffman who made that - -
THE COURT: Yes; yes.
MR. FORAN: The previous statement was made by the
defendant Dellinger.
THE COURT: The last statement was made by the defendant
Abbie Hoffman.
MR. HOFFMAN: I don't use that last name anymore."
THE COURT: That grieved me sorely, I say, off the
record, when he said that. I didn't think I deserved that so early
in this case.
"THE COURT: Will you remain quiet." Official Transcript,
Page 4,639. 7 days
Specification 5: "At the close of the morning session on October 29, the defendant Hoffman refused to rise in the customary manner. Official Transcript, Pages 4,728-29. 1 day
Specification 6: On October 29, when the Court was compelled to call a recess during the afternoon session, the defendant Hoffman once more refused to rise in the customary manner. Official Transcript, Page 4,763. 1 day
Specification 7: On October 30, at the beginning of the court session, the defendant Hoffman refused to rise in response to the marshal's direction. Official Transcript, Page 4,801 1 day
Specification 8: On October 30, when the Court was compelled to deal appropriately with Mr. Seale, Mr. Hoffman engaged in the following:
"MR. SEALE: The Judge is not-he is not trying to
give you no fair trial. That's what you are. You are lying.
You know exactly what you are.
MR. HAYDEN: Now they are going to beat him, they
are going to beat him.
MR. HOFFMAN: You may as well kill him if you are
going to gag him. It seems that way, doesn't it?
THE COURT: You are not permitted to address the
Court, Mr. Hoffman. You have a lawyer.
MR. HOFFMAN: This isn't a court. This is a
neon oven.
MR. FORAN: That was the defendant Hoffman who spoke.
THE COURT: Let the record show that the defendant
Hoffman spoke." Official Transcript, Page 4,846. And very shortly
thereafter he continued in the following interchange:
"MR. HAYDEN: I was not addressing the jury.
I was trying to protect Mr. Seale. The man is supposed to be silent
when he sees another man's nose being
smashed?
MR. HOFFMAN: The disruption started when these guys
got into overkill. It is the same thing as last year in Chicago,
the same exact thing.
THE COURT: Mr. Hoffman, you are directed to
refrain from speaking. You are ordered to refrain from speaking."
Official Transcript, Page 4,847.
After this interchange the Court determined
that a recess would be appropriate. When the Court left the bench the defendant
Hoffman refused to rise in the customary manner. Official Transcript,
Page 4,849. 2 months
Specification 9: On October 30, after a brief recess the Judge
returned to the bench in the afternoon and the defendant Hotlman again
refused to rise in the customary manner. Official Transcript, Page
4,853. 1 day
Specification 10: On November 12, the defendant Hoffman and
the other defendants openly laughed at the Judge while he was making a
ruling. The following colloquy occurred:
"THE COURT: That observation will remain on the
record and this loud laughter has got to cease.
MR. HOFFMAN: Mr. Weinglass, how many years do you
have to laugh at?
MR. WEINGLASS: I would further want to
MR. HOFFMAN: I am talking to my lawyer." Official
Transcript, Pages 6,257-59. 7 days
Specification 11: On November 26, after the Court made a ruling
the following colloquy occurred:
"THE COURT: I decide each motion on its own papers,
sir, and I am not aware of any witnesses that the Government has sought
to bring here. I don't know whether --
MR. HOFFMAN: We are very confused about this.
Is the Government going to present our defense as well as our prosecution?
THE COURT: Have you gotten that -- what is
the name of that defendant speaking?
MR. HOFFMAN: Just Abbie. I don't have a last
name, Judge. I lost it. We can't respect the law when it's
tyranny.
THE COURT: Are you able to hear the defendant Hoffman
speaking?
MR. HOFFMAN: Abbie.
THE REPORTER: Yes, sir." Official Transcript, Page
8,801 1 month
Specification 12: On December 15, the defendant Hoffman
openly laughed at the Court during its ruling on a motion, and admitted
it.
"MR HOFFMAN: I was laughing." Official
Transcript, Page 11,181 14 days
Specification 13: On December 30, while the defendant Hoffman was testifying on cross-examination, the following colloquy occurred:
"THE COURT: I will admonish the jury the United States
Attorney - -
THE WITNESS: Wait until you see the movie.
THE COURT: if it is required that he be admonished.
THE WITNESS: Wait until you see the movie.
THE COURT: And you be quiet.
THE WITNESS: Well the movie's going to be better.
THE COURT: Did you get that last, Miss Reporter?
THE REPORTER: Yes, sir.
THE COURT: The last words spoken by the witness
on the stand." Official Transcript, Page 13,013.
14 days
Specification 14: On January 9, the defendant Hoffman openly
laughed at the Court again. The following colloquy occurred:
"MR. KUNSTLER: Oh, your Honor, there
is a certain amount of humor when talking about a bathroom - -
THE COURT: Oh, I know that is your favorite reply.
MR. HOFFMAN: I laughed, too." Official Transcript,
Page 14,824. 7 days
Specification 15: On January 14, there was again an excessive
and obnoxious outburst of laughter from the table of the defendants.
The following colloquy occurred:
"MR. KUNSTLER: I just don't want to get thrown
in my chair by the marshals so I will have to sit down, but I just don't
think it is fair to do that.
MR. HOFFMAN: I laughed anyway.
THE COURT: Will you be quiet, Mr.- -
MR. HOFFMAN: I laughed. It wasn't Jerry, it
was me.
THE COURT: Did you get that, Miss Reporter?
MR. HOFFMAN: At that ruling. I laughed.
He didn't.
THE COURT: That was Mr. Dellinger.
MR. KUNSTLER: That was not Mr. Dellinger.
MR. SCHULTZ: Your Honor, that was Mr. Hoffman.
MR. KUNSTLER: Your Honor
MR. SCHULTZ: That was the defendant Hoffman speaking.
MR. HOFFMAN: I was him." Official Transcript, Page
15,587. 1 day
Specification 16: On January 16, the defendant Hoffn-ran interjected
the following comment into the proceedings, in an attempt to make a mockery
of the Court:
"THE COURT: I won't ask you to do it. Move
the lectern over, Mr. Marshal. I didn't ask you to do it. I
asked the marshal to do it. We don't punish a man before he is punishable.
MR. HOFFMAN: We don't either. We don't either.
We don't either." Official Transcript, Page 16,263. [See page 128] Withdrawn
Specification 17: On January 21, the defendants were conducting
a conference with one of their staff "members" at the defense table, while
Mr. Foran was attempting to speak. The co-conference was loud enough
to cause the following disturbance:
"THE MARSHAL: Excuse me, Mr. Foran. Will you
take your seat at the table, please.
MR. HOFFMAN: We're organizing the defense.
THE MARSHAL: Take your seat. Now. come on.
MR. HOFFMAN: She's on the staff.
THE MARSHAL: Mr. Kunstler, talking is not I'm asking
him to take his seat.
MR. KUNSTLER: I don't know what he was doing. He
said he was talking to his wife.
MR. HOFFMAN: We are talking in a low voice.
He didn't even hear.
THE COURT: The defendant's place at the trial is
at the defendants' table.
MR. HOFFMAN: We were talking
A DEFENDANT: Let our staff sit at the table, everything
would be all right.
MR. KUNSTLER: Your Honor, he was sitting, just talking
quietly with his wife, who is part of our staff.
THE COURT: I know. I know what he's doing.
I require - - the rule of this court is that the defendants sit at the
defendants' table.
MR. HOFFMAN: How do we organize the trial?
THE COURT: I order Mr. Hoffman to sit at the defendants'
table.
MR. HOFFMAN: OK. We can just talk from here.
Why don't you go out and talk to Paul Krassner and get the defense together.
I don't see how we can prepare the defense.
We have to sit here seven days- -" Official Transcript, Pages 16,791-92.
42 days
Specification 18: On January 23,
while Mr. Foran and Mr. Dellinger were engaged in a colloquy, Mr. Hoffman
inserted the following remarks:
"MR. FORAN: Your Honor, in the American system
there is a proper way to raise such issues and to correct them.
MR. DELLINGER: That was the proper way with Fred
Hampton, wasn't it?
MR. FORAN: And correct them, your Honor, by the
proper governmental system, and there is a proper way to do that.
MR. HOFFMAN: Correction the way you handled the
war in Viet Nam, the same proper - -" Official Transcript,
Page 17,376.
Shortly thereafter during the same incident a discussion
ensued concerning the propriety of Mr. Kunstler's press conferences.
Mr. Hoffman again interjected his comments. It's reported as follows:
"THE COURT: Yes, there is a law against a lawyer
participating - -
MR. KUNSTLER: No, there isn't. The rule is
quite clear, and we know what it is.
THE COURT: There is a law against - -
MR. HOFFMAN: The Judge had an interview in Time
Magazine.
THE COURT: A lawyer on television discussing the
case.
MR. KUNSTLER: Let's have what I said that was false.
That was the accusation.
THE COURT: I will ask you both to sit down.
MR. HOFFMAN: The Judge gave an interview to Time
Magazine.
THE COURT: And I will instruct Mr. Weinglass to
continue with the direct examination of this witness." Official Transcript,
Page 17,379. 14 days
Specification 19: On January 30, at the conclusion of the court's
session, the Court asked the parties and attorneys to stay after the jury
had been excused. The Court then broached the subject of the propriety
of the public speeches given by the defendants. While this discussion
was going on Mr. Hoffman again inserted his remarks gratuitously.
The incident is reported as follows:
"THE COURT: I am not going to be put on the griddle
about it. Now you are the lawyer. You are one of the lawyers
for the defendants. And I think it is wholly inappropriate for defendants
in a criminal case to make the kind of speech that was made and the matter
of bail goes beyond mere protection for the Government that the defendant
appear. Read the book.
MR. WEINGLASS: But I do not think the matter of
bail should be held over their heads in order to reduce the amount of public
speaking they are doing.
THE COURT: Oh, I don't - -
MR. HOFFMAN: I will be in Miami on Sunday afternoon
with the same speech.
THE COURT: That expression - - did you hear that?
I haven't heard either lawyer for the defendants try to quiet their clients
during this trial when@ they spoke out, not once in four and a half months,
not once." Official Transcript, Page 19,094-19,095. 7
days
Specification 20: On April 2, the Court had determined that argument on a particular question had been completed. The Court admonished Mr. Kunstler several times to sit down and desist arguing. The Court had previously ordered the defendants and their attorneys not to mention the fact that the former Attorney General of the United States, Ramsey Clark, had been excluded by order of the Court. Mr. Hoffman made several comments after the Court had indicated argument was completed, and he violated the Court's order concerning the Attorney General. The record states:
"THE COURT: You sit down, sir, or we will arrange
to have you put down.
MR. HOFFMAN: Are you going to gag the lawyers, too?
A VOICE: Chained to the chair
MR. HOFFMAN: You don't have to gag the jury, because
they haven't been able to see our witnesses.
THE COURT: That was Mr. Hoffman that made that remark,
Miss Reporter.
MR. HOFFMAN: The past Attorney General of the United
States, Ramsey Clark Official Transcript, Page 19,159.
Later in the day, the defendant Hoffman interrupted
the Court to make the following sarcastic remark:
"THE COURT: All I have to repeat to you, Mr. Kunstler,
is that I know you practice in the Southern District of New York.
I have practiced there a lot as a lawyer before all of the then District
Judges. I never saw - -
MR. HOFFMAN: When it was under British control."
Official Transcript, Page 19,199-200. 2 days
Specification 21: On April 4, during the cross-examination of
the witness Phillips, Mr. Kunstler was examining the witness concerning
the witness' concept of how hippies dress. During that incident,
Mr. Hoffman got up and danced around, lifting his shirt and baring his
body to the jury, and engaged in antics designed to make light of the testimony
of the witness. The incident is reported as follows:
"Q You are the first one that hasn't identified
him. (Hoffman.) This is Mr. Hoffman over here. (There was laughter in the
courtroom.)
THE COURT: Let the record show that Mr. Hoffman
stood up, lifted his shirt up, and bared his body in the presence of the
jury - -
MR. KUNSTLER: Your Honor, that is Mr. Hoffman's
way.
THE COURT: - - dancing around.
(There was laughter in the
courtroom.)
MR. KUNSTLER: Your Honor, that is Mr. Hoffman's
way.
THE COURT: It is a bad way in a courtroom."
MR. SCHULTZ: Excuse me, your Honor, you are saying
"April." I think you mean "February."
THE COURT: We will begin with 22.
MR. SCHULTZ: And the prior charge as well.
I think you erroneously used the month April instead of February.
Also in No. 21.
THE COURT: I have February 4 in each case.
MR. SCHULTZ: No. 20 also. I believe your Honor
used April.
THE COURT: I don't know how that happened.
MR. SCHULTZ: I think you used April inadvertently.
THE COURT: No. 20 was February 2.
MR. SCHULTZ: Thank you, sir.
THE COURT: No. 21 was February 4. We have covered
that. It refers to February 4.
"Q Mr. Phillips, my question before we had the little
colloquy - -" - - we have gone over that.
"MR. HOFFMAN: That would make it hippie dress,
naked." That was the end of that Official Transcript,
Page 19,622-24.
I'm going to go back to Item 22 here. On February
4, at the end of the session, the Court indicated that it had determined
to revoke the bail of the defendant Dellinger. In the uproar which
followed this decision Mr. Hoffman made the following remarks:
"MR. HOFFMAN: You are a disgrace to the Jews.
You would have served Hitler better. Dig it."
"MR. HOFFMAN: They are all our cases. We are bailing that guy out and every guy that gets arrested.
"MR. HOFFMAN: No spectators while they put
them in jail." Official Transcript, Pages 19,781-82.
5 days
Specification 23: On February 5, after the Court had decided
not to reinstate Mr. Dellinger's bail, Mr. Hoffman made the following remarks
in the outburst which ensued:
"MR. HOFFMAN: Your idea of justice is the only
obscenity in the room. You schtunk."
S-c-h-t-u-n-k. I can't understand the following
words.
They are spelled as follows:
"MR. HOFFMAN: Vo den? Shanda fur de
goyem? Huh."
I can understand the last.
"MR. HOFFMAN: Obviously it was a provocation.
That's why it has gone on here today because you threatened him with the
cutting of his freedom of speech in the speech he gave in Milwaukee.
THE COURT: Mr. Marshal, will you ask the defendant
Hoffman to - -
MR. HOFFMAN: This ain't the Standard Club.
THE MARSHAL: Mr. Hoffman - -
MR. HOFFMAN: Oh, tell him to stick it up his bowling
ball. How is your war stock doing, Julie? You don't have any
power. They didn't have any power in the Third Reich either.
THE COURT: Will you ask him to sit down, Mr. Marshal?
THE MARSHAL: Mr. Hoffman, I am asking you again
to shut up.
MR. RUBIN: Gestapo.
MR. HOFFMAN: Show him your .45. Show him a .45.
He ain't never seen a gun." Official Transcript, Pages 19,801-02.
"MR. HOFFMAN: Mies van der Rohe was a Kraut,
too." Official Transcript, Page 19,803.
"MR. HOFFMAN: You know you cannot win the
fucking case. The only way you can is to [put] us away for contempt.
We have contempt for this court, and for you, Schultz, and for this whole
rotten system. That's the only justice. That is why they want
this because they can't prove this fucking case." Official Transcript,
Pages 19,803-4.
The court finds - -
Does any lawyer want to speak for Mr. Hoffman?
MR. WEINGLASS: If the Court please, I repeat the
motion with respect to lack of jurisdiction and lack of authority.
THE COURT: I will consider that you made the same
point.
MR. WEINGLASS: The only other matter which I want
to point out to the court deals with Item No. 16 and I point it out for
one very specific but limited purpose.
In this particular incident the Court noted that
on January 16 a marshal was attempting to move this lectern, I think a
movie was being set up, and Mr. Hoffman at that time rose from his chair
and attempted to assist the marshal in moving the lectern. The Court
advised Mr. Hoffman he didn't have to do that because - - I think the direct
quote is "We don't punish a man in the court until he is punishable."
And I think the Court was engaging there in a witticism.
I remember I myself laughed. I thought it was a quite funny remark.
When the Court made that funny remark, I think every
one in the courtroom laughed and then Mr. Hoffman replied to that witticism
in kind for he said, I believe something to the effect that "We don't either."
- -
Now for the Court's humor which got a laughing response
there was, of course, no punishment. For Mr. Hoffman's response to
the Court's humor he will have to, of course, serve time in jail, and I
think this incident more than any indicates how the Court can pluck out
of this transcript items which have occurred where in this one particular
case the Court itself was involved together with Abbie Hoffman in doing
something that I think we have all tried to do in the course of this trial
which lasted over five months and that is at times inject humor.
Your Honor has done it. You have gotten laughing responses.
I have laughed. Other people have laughed.
When Abbie Hoffman attempts even while the laughter
for the Court is dying down to inject his own humor, he is going to be
sent to jail and punished for it. And I just point it out.
THE COURT: While I do not agree with your interpretation
of Item 16, 1 will take it out.
I will hear from Mr. Hoffman if he wants to be heard.
DEFENDANT HOFFMAN: Well, I think
THE COURT: If you will be respectful.
DEFENDANT HOFFMAN: Respectful? My six-year-old
daughter yesterday sent me a note. She said perhaps when the judge
changes his glasses he doesn't have a pair that enables him to see what
the defendants are all about.
The use of the word "respect" is quite different
to me. I called this place a neon oven. A neon oven in a stainless
steel cuckoo nest, designed by your friend Mies van der Rohe. I might
add he died right after he built this, it kind of killed him, building
a building in which he had to put men away in prison and perhaps into death
houses.
THE COURT: I will let you speak to the specifications,
sir.
DEFENDANT HOFFMAN: You have always referred to -they
were my remarks-you said that we did not pay tribute to the highest court
in the land, but to us the Federal Court is not the highest court in the
land.
THE COURT: I didn't hear myself say that.
DEFENDANT HOFFMAN: Oh, yes, you did. You always
call it the highest court in the land. Sure.
THE COURT: The Supreme Court is.
DEFENDANT HOFFMAN: The defendants have no respect
for the highest court in the land. It ain't high.
THE COURT: I will have to ask you to sit down.
DEFENDANT HOFFMAN: I ain't going to sit down.
I ain't going to sit down. I am going to fight for my right to speak
in the same way that I fought for my right to speak and assemble in Lincoln
Park.
THE COURT: You are not going to continue your insults
and besides you are making statements - -
DEFENDANT HOFFMAN: We don't consider it the highest.
We consider the people the highest court in the land.
THE COURT: You may speak to these specifications.
DEFENDANT HOFFMAN: You have said repeatedly you
have said this afternoon that we do not respect the dignity and decorum
of this court.
THE COURT: That is right.
DEFENDANT HOFFMAN: But when the decorum is oppression,
the only dignity that free men have is the right to speak out. Furthermore,
you said we do not honor your authority, but we recognize that authority
as illegitimate in the same way that the authority that decided the political
decisions in that heavy week in August in 1968 was illegitimate and did
not represent the will and the desire of the people.
So we cannot respect an authority that we regard
as illegitimate. We can only offer resistance to such illegitimate
authority.
What are you guys getting nervous about?
Furthermore, you have asked us to respect the law
but this is a law - - I sat there on the witness stand and Mr. Schultz
said, "What were you wondering?" as he quoted from my book and speeches.
"What were you wondering that night when you stood before a building?"
And I said, "Wonder? Wonder? I have
never been on trial for wondering. Is that like a dream?"
He said, "Yes, that's like a dream."
And I have never been on trial for my dreams before.
How can I respect the highest court in the land or a federal government
that puts people on trial for their dreams. I can show it no respect.
THE COURT: You took the Fifth Amendment, though,
didn't you? You took the privilege of the Fifth Amendment?
DEFENDANT HOFFMAN: Which Fifth Amendment?
Where did I take the Fifth? No, I didn't. I didn't take it
because I wasn't ashamed and that's why we put on all of those witnesses
that Mr. Foran said oh, evil people running for pope.
THE COURT: Oh, that is right. You decided
to answer the question. I guess that was it.
DEFENDANT HOFFMAN: And I said - -
THE COURT: Have you got anything more to say with
regard to the specifications?
DEFENDANT HOFFMAN: No. 18 where I said we cannot
respect when we wanted to bring John Sinclair in here, a man who is right
now serving ten years for two cigarets of marijuana. I said that
we cannot respect a law, a law that is tyranny, and a law that is trying
us, and the courts are in a conspiracy of tyranny, and when the law is
in tyranny, the only order is insurrection and disrespect, and that's what
we showed, and that's what all honorable men of free will will show.
That's it.
A VOICE: Right on.
THE COURT: Mr. Clerk, the court finds the defendant
Hoffman guilty of direct contempt in the presence of - -
DEFENDANT HOFFMAN: I didn't say - - I might say
that a lot of those statements I didn't say, but maybe some of the other
people that said them said it, but it's O.K., it don't matter.
THE COURT: Direct contempt - -
DEFENDANT HOFFMAN: We are proud of what we say.
THE COURT: direct contempt of the court with respect
to the specifications mentioned.
DEFENDANT HOFFMAN: You forgot that I wiped my feet
on the robes because I didn't see a black robe of justice. I saw
a white robe with a hood on it.
THE COURT: Will you sit down. Yes, I was kind
to you. I said you put the robe on the floor.
DEFENDANT HOFFMAN: You're kind to us. You
said you were kind to Bobby Seale when you chained and gagged him.
You said, "I am doing this for your own good, Mr. Seale, in order to insure
a fair and proper trial for you and the other defendants."
THE COURT: Mr. Marshal, have that man sit down.
DEFENDANT HOFFMAN: Sure. I can say it seated.
THE COURT: Mr. Clerk, as I said before, the court
finds the defendant Hoffman guilty of direct contempt in the presence of
the court and in respect to the specifications which I shall mention here
and designate the punishment in connection with each item:
Specification 1, 1 day in the custody of the Attorney General of the
United States or his authorized representative; Specification 2, the defendant
will be committed to the custody of the Attorney General of the United
States or his authorized representative for a period of 7 days; Specification
3, 1 day; Specification 4, 7 days; Specification 5, 1 day; Specification
6, 1 day; Specification 7, 1 day; Specification 8, 2 months; Specification
9, 1 day; Specification 10, 7 days; Specification I 1, 1 month; Specification
12, 14 days; Specification 13, 14 days; Specification 14, 7 days; Specification
15, 1 day; Specification 17, 42 days; Specification 18, 14 days; Specification
19, 7 days; Specification 20, 2 days; Specification 21, 4 days; Specification
22, 5 days; Specification 23, 6 days; Specification 24, 7 days. All
these sentences are to be cumulative and consecutive for the defendant
Hoffman.
MR. WEINGLASS: Your Honor, at this time - - I haven't
done it before, but I would like to ask bail pending appeal of contempt
for not only Mr. Hoffman but the other two defendants, Mr. Davis and Mr.
Hayden.
THE COURT: It will be denied because these are direct
contempts in the presence of the court and any appeal would be in the opinion
of the court frivolous.
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