Rejects Conspiracy 7 Probe BY ROBERT DAVIS Skolnick maintained that al- the case were Davis, Hayden, The United States Court of tho five of the seven defend- , , Appeals turned down a request ants were convicted of conspir- and . Each was yesterday that it conduct a ing to incite riots during the sentenced to five years on complete investigation of the 1968 Democratic National Con- those convictions. Chicago Conspiracy 7 trial be- vention, the government has Held in contempt of court cause it was a "fraud upon the still allowed them to be free to and sentenced to terms of up court." travel. He also claims the gov- to 4 years were all defendants, Sherman Skolnick, court crit- ernment is plotting to eventu- including and John ic, filed his request with the ally have the convictions over- Froines, and also William Run- court just a day before sched- turned. stler and , uled oral arguments on the ap- Convicted of conspiracy in the two defense lawyers. peal of the conspiracy and con- tempt of court convictions set for today and tomorrow. In a seven-page motion filed with the appeals court, Skol- nick branded the entire Con- spiracy 7 case as a plot by the government to discredit the antiwar movement in the Unit- ed States. To back his claims, Skolnick contended that Renard Davis and , two of the defendants, are government agents, backed financially by front groups for the Central Intelligence Agency and the Office of Economic Opportu- nity.