In the mid-1960s, the University of Wisconsin may have lacked the notoriety of the University of California-Berkeley, but it had the same vibe, says Boston criminal defense attorney Martin G. Weinberg.
“It was a radical hotbed,” he says.
Weinberg, who had grown up in a New York suburb, was among those who had become passionate about the illegality and impropriety of the Vietnam War.
That did not sit well with the Madison police, who believed out-of-state students like Weinberg were “corrupting the purity of the Wisconsin youth,” he says with a laugh.
To break up demonstrations, the police gave rabble rousers like Weinberg a clear choice: run through a gauntlet of batons and disperse, keeping intact their dreams of attending law or medical school, or get arrested and have an indelible stain on their records.
It was a crystallizing moment for Weinberg, who had begun to sense he would devote his life to “challenging the sovereign” and now knew how.
“I did want to be a political person, but I wanted to do it not through street demonstrations but through the law,” he says.
That commitment did not waver as Weinberg made his way through Harvard Law School, the rare student fully committed to practicing criminal law. Nor is it waning now that Weinberg has been practicing more than 50 years.
A self-proclaimed “healthy 77,” Weinberg speaks to Lawyers Weekly fresh off one of his daily two-mile runs. He’s adamant that readers not mistake this story for a “retirement piece.”
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