In The Trial of the Chicago 7, the new film from Aaron Sorkin now playing on Netflix, Abbie Hoffman, one of the defendants accused of inciting a riot outside the Chicago Democratic Convention, scoffs at the idea that the trial is little more than a circus before a judge and jury. He tells his lawyer, William Kunstler (Mark Rylance), that "this is a political trial that was already decided for us. Ignoring that reality is just weird to me." Kunstler, attempting to give some he