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NY 100-161445 ‘ note \ one Assistant US Attorney SAM SKINNER asked the court to dismiss the charges against the subject due to the fact that he is pr g similar charge on local and state level. that several of HOFFHRAN's co- horts were also n or the hearin wever, their identities were not known, hat HOFFMAN clownfully posed for news pho ers, but refused to give any statement, other than the fact that the charges would be dropped. On November 27, 1968, Assistant US Attorney NICHOLAS M. KARZEN, Chicago, advised that the Government's -: complaint against HOFFMAN was dismissed on November 25, 1968. He advised the basis for the government's dismissal of the complaint was a Department of Justice memorandum, which stated a subject should not be prosecuted by the Federal government on the same charge for which he was being prose- cuted by the State. In this connection, Mr. KARZEN pointed out that the subject is currently being prosecuted locally en the same set of facts on which the Federal comdaint was ased,- . A representative of the Capitol Hill Police, advised on October 3, 1968, that at approximately 10:00 AM on that date, approximately 25 individuals were gathered in the vicinity of the Cannon Office Building on Capitol Hill, Washington, D, C., where the hearings of the House Committee on Un-American Activities {HCUA) on the Chicago disturbance were scheduled to reconvene. At about that time, ABBIE HOFFMAN arrived at a southwest door of the building wearing a shirt that appeared to have been made from an American flag. He was placed under arrest by the US Capitol Police and charged with defacing the American flag. HOFFMAN was Placed under $3,000.00 bond and scheduled for jury trial on November 20, 1968, The files of the Office of the Clerk of Court, Criminal Division, District of Columbia, Court of General Sessions, Washington, D, C,, as reviewed on November 22 1968, disclosed that ABBIE HOFFMAN, on November 20, 1965, withdrew his demand for a jury trial and was tried before Judge ANDREW J. HOWARD, Jr., who found HOFFMAN guilty of defiling the American flag by wearing a shirt resembling the flag and was sentenced to pay a fine of $100.00 or serve 30 Gays in jail. SECRET o_o ~ SEMEL RN ae Sh Ne IR LCR TTS ee FRAN Fale REM: SS So re