He is most noted as a member of the Chicago Seven, a group charged with involvement with the riots at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. Froines, who holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Yale, was charged with interstate travel for purposes of inciting a riot and with making incendiary devices. He and Lee Weiner were the only two defendants to be acquitted by the jury on both of the counts charged against them 
, and contempt of court findings by Judge Julius Hoffman were rejected in their entirety after an appeal.
Froines later served as the Director of Toxic Substances at the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration. He currently teaches at the UCLA School of Public Health
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