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4 4 Ne ne C ) co “UNFIDATIAL NY 100-161445 "The coincidence of the surname shared by Mr. Hoffman and the trial judge, Julius J. Hoffman, has provoked comment in and out of court since the trial began. Early in the trial, Mr. Hoffman called the judge his ‘illegitimate father' and renounced the name of Hoffman. "So, when Leonard I. Weinglass, a defense attorney, began the examination this afternoon by asking him what his name was, he replied merély: "“tMy name is Abbie. I'm an orphan of America’. "Mr. Schultz asked that the record show that the defendant Hoffman was on the stand, and Judge Hoffman so ordered, noting that Hoffman was the name that appeared on the indictment. "A similar argument developed when Mr. Weinglass asked where Mr. Hoffman lived. "'y Jive in the Woodstock Nation,' he said. ‘Woodstock Nation' is the title of a book Mr. Hoffman wrote this year. It takes its name from the upstate New York rock festival held last summer. "Prosecutor Protests "Mr. Schultz protested that the answer was not responsive. But Mr. Hoffman persisted. "The Woodstock Nation, he explained, is not a place but a ‘state of mind-- a nation of alienated young people which we carry around with us in our minds just as the Sioux Indians carried around the Sioux nation in their minds.' “But Judge Hoffman interruped to say, ‘One address will be sufficient, nothing about philosophy or Indians, sir. You say Woodstock. Where is Woodstock?' +10- CUNFIDENBIAL