Dealul Spirii Trial

A number of politicians and intellectuals, including Nicolae Iorga, Dem I. Dobrescu, and Iuliu Maniu voiced their discontent over the lack of constitutional basis for the trial.

[3] The communists were put into a joint trial with Max Goldstein, an anarchist who bombed the Senate on 8 December 1920, killing three people.

[3] The trial took place on Dealul Spirii, a hill in Bucharest, where the Senate of Romania was located, and where the Palace of the Parliament now stands.

[2] The main defense attorney was Dem I. Dobrescu, the dean of the Bucharest Bar, helped by leading lawyers including Osvald Teodoreanu, Iorgu Petrovici, and N. D. Cocea.

[2] The defense strategy was to try to separate the defenders into people who were arrested for their political activity (the communists) and the anarchists, such as Max Goldstein.

Among those that were found innocent were Mihail Cruceanu, Moscu Kohn, Ilie Moscovici, Elek Köblös, and Constantin Popovici.