Peace Lawyer Has Ties To Weather Underground Founder

In 1991 attorney Douglass Cassel sat in a courtroom in El Salvador as an observer at the trial of Salvadoran soldiers and officers charged with murdering six dissident Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her teenage daughter.

He represented the American Bar Association, one of the international observers appointed by the Salvadoran Supreme Court.

The judge had little control over a crowd just outside the courthouse that was led by a colonel attempting to intimidate the jury. Low-flying airplanes circled ominously above the courthouse......With help from colleague Bernardine Dohrn, director of the law school’s Children and Family Justice Center,

Cassel convened an unofficial “tribunal of opinion” in Chicago. The tribunal, chaired by former Illinois Supreme Court Justice Seymour Simon, unanimously found the Colombian government responsible for the bombing and recommended proper prosecutions.

The government was invited to the tribunal and declined to participate, so Cassel and Dohrn went to Colombia to present their case to the people.
Link (here) to an article entitled Rule of Law written by Laura Wilson. Laura Wilson is a clinical social worker for Catholic Charities in Lake County, Ill.