In 1975, Kunstler again defended AIM members in the slaying of two FBI agents at Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, not far from the site of the Wounded Knee incident.

In his last major public appearance, at the commencement ceremonies for the University at Buffalo's School of Architecture and Planning, Kunstler lambasted the death penalty, saying, " We have become the charnel house of the Western world with reference to executions ; the next closest to us is the Republic of South Africa.

During the Civil rights movement, he worked in the South for civil rights lawyers including William Kunstler.

The same year ( 1915 ), Kofoid and Christiansen wrote " The generic name Lamblia Blanchard 1888 should give way to Giardia Kunstler 1882 on ground of priority …" ( the epithet being intestinalis ) and used Giardia enterica in 1920.

Kunstler refused to defend right-wing groups such as the Minutemen, on the grounds that: " I only defend those whose goals I share.

" Even some other civil rights lawyers regarded Kunstler as a " publicity hound and a hit-and-run lawyer " who " brings cases on Page 1 and the N. A. A. C. P.

Kunstler won honorable mention for the National Legal Aid Association's press award in 1957 for his series of radio broadcasts on WNEW: " The Law on Trial.

" At WNEW, Kunstler also conducted interviews on controversial topics, such as the Alger Hiss case, on a program called " Counterpoint.

Kunstler first made headlines in 1957 defending William Worthy, a correspondent for the Baltimore Afro-American, who was one of forty-two Americans who had their passports seized after violating the State Department's travel ban on Communist China ( after attending a Communist youth conference in Moscow ).

Working on behalf of the ACLU, Kunstler defended the " Freedom Riders " in Mississippi in 1961.

At the time of the publication, Kunstler was already well known for his work with the Freedom Riders, his book on the Caryl Chessman case, and his radio coverage of trials.

Kunstler also sparred with Judge Julius Hoffman, on one occasion remarking ( with respect to the number of federal marshals ): " this courtroom has the appearance of an armed camp.

During one heated exchange, Kunstler informed Hoffman that his entry on " Who's Who " was three times longer than the judge's, to which the judge replied " I hope you get a better obituary ".

The progress of the trial — which had many aspects of guerrilla theatre -- was covered on the nightly news and made Kunstler the best-known lawyer in the country, and something of a folk hero.

Kunstler, who headed the defense, called the trial " the most important Indian trial of the 20th century ", attempting to center the defense on the Treaty of Fort Laramie ( 1868 ).

Kunstler objected to the heavy trial security on the grounds that it could prejudice the jury and Judge Fred J. Nichol agreed to ease measures.

Kunstler focused on pointing out that all the other prosecution witnesses were testifying under reduced-sentencing agreements and called five prison inmates as defense witnesses ( Miller called none ), who testified that other prisoners hit the guard.

Although the prosecution was careful to avoid personal confrontation with Kunstler, who frequently charmed the jury with jokes, on one instance Kunstler provoked a shouting match with the lead prosecutor, allegedly to wake up a sleeping jury member.

In June, Kunstler and Barbara Handshu, representing another inmate at Attica, Mariano Gonzales, asked for a new hearing on the role of FBI informant Mary Jo Cook.

* Kunstler was parodied as an attorney representing R. Kelly during his trial for ‘ soliciting a minor ’ and / or ‘ sex with a minor ’ on the animated comedy series The Boondocks.

* According to Lionel Shriver, the character of Joel Litvinoff in Zoë Heller's 2008 novel The Believers may be modelled on Kunstler.

Kuby, with Kunstler, represented Gregory Lee Johnson, a protester who burned a U. S. Flag at the 1984 Republican National Convention ; Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, the blind cleric who headed the Egyptian-based militant group Al-Gama ' a al-Islamiyya, accused of planning and encouraging terrorist attacks against Americans ; Colin Ferguson, the man responsible for the 1993 LIRR shootings ( who chose to represent himself at trial ); Qubilah Shabazz, the daughter of Malcolm X, accused of plotting to murder Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam ; Glenn Harris, a New York public school teacher who absconded with a fifteen year-old girl for two months ; Darrell Cabey, a youth who was acquitted of assault on Bernard Goetz and successfully sued him for shooting Cabey ; Yu Kikumura, a member of the Japanese Red Army ; and associates of the Gambino Crime Family.

Judge Hoffman imposed prison sentences on the five, as well as on Mr. Kunstler, whom he held in contempt.

In the March 25, 1990 issue of The New York Times, writer James Howard Kunstler published a piece entitled " Schuylerville Stands Still ".

On March 1, 1994 William Kunstler and Ron Kuby, law partners known for representing unpopular clients, announced they had accepted a request by Ferguson to handle his case.

William Moses Kunstler ( July 7, 1919 – September 4, 1995 ) was an American self-described " radical lawyer " and civil rights activist, known for his controversial clients.

Kunstler joined the defense staff of Assata Shakur in 1977, charged in New Jersey with a variety of felonies in connection with a 1973 shootout with New Jersey State Troopers.

* In the film The Big Lebowski, Jeff " The Dude " Lebowski ( played by Jeff Bridges ) demands representation by Kunstler or Ron Kuby during the Malibu Police Station scene.

* In the film The Big Lebowski, Jeff " The Dude " Lebowski ( played by Jeff Bridges ) demands representation either by Mr. Kuby or Bill Kunstler during the Malibu Police Station scene.

Kunstler was a board member of the American Civil Liberties Union ( ACLU ) and the co-founder of the Law Center for Constitutional Rights ( CCR ), the " leading gathering place for radical lawyers in the country ".

Kunstler's defense of the " Chicago Seven " from 1969 – 1970 led The New York Times to label him " the country's most controversial and, perhaps, its best-known lawyer ..." Kunstler is also well known for defending members of the Catonsville Nine, Black Panther Party, Weather Underground Organization, the Attica Prison rioters, and the American Indian Movement.

At the trial in 1976, Kunstler subpoenaed prominent government officials to testify about the existence of a Counter-Intelligence Program ( COINTELPRO ) against Native American activists.

Kunstler also defended a Native American woman who refused to send her daughter with muscular dystrophy to school.

Similarly, in The Geography of Nowhere, American writer James Howard Kunstler refers to contemporary suburban shopping centers as " Potemkin village shopping plazas ".

In April 1994, District Attorney Dillon sought a gag order for all lawyers involved in the case, arguing Kunstler and Kuby had made statements to the media that might be inadmissible during the trial and could influence potential jurors.

Ferguson started to claim he was not involved in the Long Island Rail Road shootings at all, and repeatedly refused to meet with a psychiatrist chosen by Kunstler and Kuby.

Under cross-examination, Kunstler forced Correction Officer Donald Melven to retract his sworn identification of John Hill, Kunstler's client, and Charles Pernasilice ( defended by Richard Miller ), admitting he still retained " slight " doubts that he confessed to investigators at the time of the incident.

His attorneys in the gun violation case were civil rights advocate Murphy Bell of Baton Rouge, and the self described " radical lawyer " William Kunstler.

Kunstler also used Schuylerville as an example of a town in decline in a chapter titled " The loss of community " in his 1993 book, The Geography of Nowhere.

A documentary Tulia, Texas: Scenes from the Drug War was filmed by Sarah Kunstler and Emily Kunstler in 2003, and won the Best Documentary Short award at Woodstock Film Festival.

William Kunstler ( pictured ) and his law partner, Ron Kuby, agreed to provide Colin Ferguson free legal representation.

Kunstler, who said he would not collect a fee for the defense, said Ferguson had been made out to be a " pariah " by the media and public.

Kunstler and Kuby argued they would have no problem finding 12 unbiased jurors, and claimed Ferguson had already been publicly attacked in the press by government and police officials.

Ferguson was not reassured until after a judge told him the same thing, at the request of Kunstler.

Kunstler and Kuby argued Ferguson had been driven insane by racial prejudice, and could not be held criminally liable for his actions even though he had committed the killings.

Donald E. Belfi, the Nassau County Judge assigned to the Ferguson case, criticized Kunstler for speaking to the media about the proposed defense before it had been examined by a mental health professional.

Belfi said, " Mr. Kunstler may have many talents, but until he receives his medical degree with a specialty in psychiatry, these types of conclusions should best be left for medical experts and the triers of the facts.

On August 12, 1994 Kunstler and Kuby asked Judge Belfi to reconsider Ferguson's competence to stand trial, claiming he was growing more delusional, paranoid and obsessive by the day, and that he was too mentally unbalanced for them to mount any kind of defense.

" Kunstler and Kuby argued Ferguson's behavior was indicative of his mental imbalance.

Denis Dillon suggested Kunstler was trying to create " such a bizarre situation " that the court would reverse its earlier ruling regarding Ferguson's competence.

On September 20, 1994 Kunstler and Kuby filed notice that they would pursue an insanity defense despite the objections of their client.

In the following months, Ferguson sent Judge Belfi several letters regarding disputes between Ferguson, Kunstler and Kuby.

* Decret No. 2 ' An die Armee der Kunstler ', high voice

In addition Judge Hoffman sentenced all eight defendants and both of their lawyers ( William Kunstler and Leonard Weinglass ) to lengthy jail terms for contempt of court.

Ferguson's lawyers ( William Kunstler ) argued that he should not be held criminally liable, for actions which broke the law, because he was overcome with rage by his perceived society's racist discrimination against black people.