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 | | On March 29, 1969, Rennie Davis, David Dellinger, John Froines, Tom Haiden, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Bobby Seale, and Lee Wiener were were indicted for crossing state lines with the intent to incite violence. |
 | | They were tried in the court of Judge Julius Hoffman, an elderly white man. The jury was selected out of a group of 300, the large majority of which was white. |
 | | On November 21, 1972, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed all convictions, because the court had not sufficiently measured the biases of the jury, and Judge Hoffman's "deprecatory and often antagonistic attitude toward the defense". |
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