The Illinois Supreme Court has voided the conviction of three members of the Silver Legion for smearing and breaking windows of the Jewish-owed Goldblatt Brothers department store in Chicago. The judge said the action was based on the difficulty of determining “whether the defendants were tried for breaking windows or for membership in an anti-Jewish organization.”
The defendants, Homer Maertz, who is of German extraction, Fred Pocorny and Douglas Campbell, had been sentenced from one to ten years in the penitentiary in 1940 on a charge of malicious mischief.
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