Julius Hoffman
Julius Jennings Hoffman was an American attorney and jurist. He served as a U.S. District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. He was nominated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on April 27, 1953, to a new seat created by 64 Stat. 443. He died of natural causes the next year before his 88th birthday.
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Julius Jennings Hoffman was an American attorney and jurist. He served as a U.S. District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. He presided over the Chicago Seven trial. Hoffman was nominated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on April 27, 1953, to a new seat created by 64 Stat. 443. His service ended due to his death on July 1, 1983 in Chicago. He was the favorite courtroom target of the Chicago 7 defendants, who often openly insulted the judge.
He also presided over a tax evasion case against Tony Accardo, an obscenity case against Lenny Bruce, a deportation suit against alleged Nazi war criminal Frank Walus, and several desegregation suits. He died of natural causes the next year before his 88th birthday. He is buried in Chicago, Illinois, with his wife, the former Barbara Hoffman, and their three children. He had a son and a daughter.
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