Leonard Weinglass, a civil rights attorney whose clients included Black Panthers, radicals, a police officer-killer who sparked crusades against the death penalty, the Chicago Seven in the 1960s and the so-called Cuban Five in recent years, died on Wednesday of pancreatic cancer. He was 77.
Mr. Weinglass defended people for their politics not their alleged crimes, friends said.
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