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 Long Island Rail Road shooting ( 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 City public school teacher who absconded with a 15-year-old girl for two months ; Darrell Cabey , a youth who was acquitted of assault on Bernard Goetz and successfully sued Goetz for shooting Cabey ; Yu Kikumura , a member of the Japanese Red Army ; and associates of the Gambino Crime Family . During the Gulf War , the pair represented American soldiers claiming conscientious objector status . They also represented El Sayyid Nosair , assassin of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane , whom Kuby 's father had admired , and the leftist radical turned health care activist Dr. Alan Berkman
1993 Long Island Rail Road shooting
1993 Long Island Rail Road shooting
Ron Kuby