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NY 100-161445 ~D: Arrests me ee a cme ee = ml ome 1. Federal Indictment, Chicago, Illinois On March 20, 1969, ABBOTT HOFFMAN was indicted bya Federal Grand Jury (FGJ), Chicago, charged with a violation of the Antiriot Laws (ARL), Title 18, United States Code (USC), Sections 2101 and 371. HOFFMAN was charged with conspiring withothers, and himself traveling in interstate commerce — from outside Illinois, to Chicago, Illinois, with the intent toincite, organize, promote and encourage, a riot and thereafter, on or about August 26, 1968, at Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois, and on or about August 27, 1968, at Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois, and on or about: August 29, 1968, at Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois, he did speak to assemblages of persons for the purposes of inciting, organizing, promoting, and encouraging a riot. Trial in this matter commenced in Chicago, Illinois,’ on September 24, 1969, and on February 18, 1970, HOFFMAN was found by a jury to be guilty of Section 2101 of the above statute, as related to his own travel interstate for the purposes as noted. On February 20, 1970, he was sentenced by United States District Court (USDC) Judge JULIUS J. HOFFMAN, trial guage in this case, to five years in the custody of the ttorney General (AG), fined $5,000.00 and court costs.