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THOMAS AQUINAS FORAN, 76, a Chicago trial lawyer best known as the pugnacious prosecutor in the Chicago Seven conspiracy case of 1969 and 1970, died Sunday in Lake Forest, Ill. The seven defendants at the four-and-a-half-month trial stood accused of inciting the riots that swirled around the Democratic National Convention in 1968. Mr. Foran and his prosecuting team obtained convictions against five of them - David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman and Rennie Davis - for the lesser charge of crossing state lines with intent to incite a riot; two defendants were acquitted, Lee Weiner and John R. Froines. Judge Julius J. Hoffman imposed prison sentences on the five, as well as on defense lawyer William M. Kunstler, whom he held in contempt. None of them served any time in prison. An appeals court threw out the convictions and rebuked Hoffman for unseemly conduct in court and procedural errors.