N.Y. Bar Won’t Accept Dohrn
A former leader of the Weather Underground, Bernardine Dohrn, who was a fugitive for 11 years, has been rejected for admission to the New York bar, her lawyer said today.
“They feel her record since she came back into normal society has not convinced them entirely that she’s really committed to the practice of law,” the lawyer, Harold Tyler, said.
“She is disappointed. She continues to think she is now qualified and that she presented a good record.”
Dohrn, 43, passed the New York state bar exam last year and has been assisting lawyers in the Manhattan office of a Chicago-based law firm. Now married and the mother of three, she was graduated from the University of Chicago Law School in 1967.
Dohrn surfaced in 1980 and pleaded guilty to aggravated battery and bail-jumping charges stemming from protests against the Vietnam War in 1969. She was put on three years’ probation and fined $1,500.
In 1982, she was jailed for seven months for refusing to cooperate with a grand jury investigating the 1981 robbery of a Brink’s truck in which guards were slain.
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