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On September 9, 1968, a grand jury in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois began to investigate demonstration organizers for federal law violations and police officers for civil rights violations.<ref name="Ragsdale-2008" />{{RP|3}} On March 20, 1969, the grand jury indictments of eight demonstrators and eight police officers were publicly announced.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Epstein |first1=Jason |title=The great conspiracy trial; an essay on law, liberty, and the Constitution |date=1970 |publisher=Random House |page=32 |url=https://archive.org/details/greatconspiracyt00epst |access-date=13 September 2022}}</ref> Seven police officers were charged with assault and one police officer was charged with perjury.<ref name="Ragsdale-2008" />{{RP|4}}
The charges against the demonstrators were the first prosecutions under the anti-riot provisions of [[Civil Rights Act of 1968#Title X: Anti-Riot Act|Title X of the Civil Rights Act of 1968]].<ref name="Ragsdale-2008" />{{RP|4}} All were charged with conspiring to use interstate commerce with intent to incite a riot. [[David Dellinger]], [[Rennie Davis]], [[Tom Hayden]], [[Abbie Hoffman]], [[Jerry Rubin]], and [[Bobby Seale]] were also charged with crossing state lines with the intent to incite a riot. [[John Froines]] and [[Lee Weiner]]
Sixteen others were named by the grand jury as alleged co-conspirators, but not indicted: Wolfe B. Lowenthal, [[Stew Albert|Stewart E. Albert]], Sidney M. Peck, [[Kathy Boudin]], Corina F. Fales, Benjamin Radford, Thomas W. Neumann, Craig Shimabukuro, Bo Taylor, David A. Baker, Richard Bosciano, Terry Gross, Donna Gripe, Benjamin Ortiz, Joseph Toornabene, and Richard Palmer.<ref name="Chicago Seven Co-Conspirators">{{cite web|title=Indictment in the Chicago Seven Conspiracy Trial|url=https://famous-trials.com/chicago8/1328-indiciment|publisher=Famous Trials: Chicago Seven|access-date=July 26, 2018}}</ref>
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