He got in trouble for siding with Lewis Morris, who had been dismissed as Chief Justice after the governor accorded equity jurisdiction to the supreme court to facilitate his suit against Rip Van Dam.  
His chosen lawyers, William Smith and James Alexander, were debarred by Chief Justice James De Lancey before his trial.  He got in trouble for siding with Lewis Morris, who had been dismissed as Chief Justice after the governor accorded equity jurisdiction to the supreme court to facilitate his suit against Rip Van Dam.  When a grand jury refused to indict him, he was tried on information supplied by Richard Bradley, and on the day of the trial Andrew Hamilton showed up to defend him successfully.  A year later, the man who caused the ruckus, William Cosby, died.  FTP, name this German printer who was famously tried for libel in New York in 1735.
His chosen lawyers, William Smith and James Alexander, were debarred by Chief Justice James De Lancey before his trial.  
John Peter Zenger