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- Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Appeals turned down a request ants were convicted of conspir- and David Dellinger. 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 Lee Weiner 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 Leonard Weinglass, 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 Tom Hayden, two of the defendants, are government agents, backed financially by front groups for the Central Intelligence Agency and the Office of Economic Opportu- nity. .