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2 Ty a NY 100-161445 HOFFMAN moved that the case be appealed and has been allowed to remain free on personal bond pending the appeal. The "Berkeley Barb", an underground college news- paper, published in Berkeley, California, in its December 27, 1968 - January 2, 1969 issue, on Page 11, carried an article entitled "ABBIE Out to Get Due From Fuzz", which stated in part as follows: "ABBIE HOFFMAN is bringing a big, damage suit --, with ACLU support -- against the D.C. pice who busted him, October 4 for weezring a flag-shirt. “Against his will they took a blood sample in jail with a nondisposable needle --~ and this almost surely led to. the hepatitis, which has caused permanent liver damage." Tne records of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, Washington, D, C., as reviewed on February 19, 1969, disclosed that the subject appealed his conviction in the Criminal Division of the District of Columbia Court of Gen- erai Sessions on November 20, 1968, for defiling the American flag by wearing a shirt resembling the flag. ‘ne records further disclosed that the appeal was filed on December 6, 1968, and was filed by the Clerk of the Court of Appeals as Case Number 4865. . ‘ - 16-