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Lee Weiner Courtesy of Bettman/Corbis.

Lee Weiner was the least familiar of the defendants, with only limited connections to those who had planned the Chicago demonstrations. At the trial he also was the least visible and, according to Tom Hayden, spent much of his time in court reading the I Ching. Weiner was a research assistant in the sociology department at Northwestern University and had served at the Chicago demonstrations as a marshal with the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam. He was indicted for conspiracy along with the other seven original defendants, and he and John Froines were indicted on a separate charge of teaching the use of incendiary devices.

Weiner was acquitted of both the conspiracy charge and the incendiary device charge. Judge Hoffman convicted Weiner on seven charges of criminal contempt and sentenced him to two months and eighteen days in jail. The U.S. court of appeals reversed the convictions and remanded the charges for retrial before another judge. After the government presented its case in the retrial, Judge Edward Gignoux acquitted Weiner of all remaining contempt charges.

Weiner later worked as a political consultant and with the Anti-Defamation League in New York City.