I am 100 percent sure. They did not bother to show up nor did they submit any legal proceedings for the case. They were found guilty in their absence. When the judge proceeding over the case told the prosecutors to come back and file the penalty for the group, that is when the White House stepped in. The complaint was submitted by Michael B. Mukasey (the then-Attorney General of the United States), Grace Chung Becker of the DOJ Civil Rights Division, H. Christopher Coates, Robert Popper, and J. Christian Adams, of the DOJ Civil Rights Division Voting Section.

The lawsuit was ignored by the three men and therefore by default they were technically guilty. Later – the charges against all three men were officially dropped. Only Maurice Heath remains under restriction – he is not allowed to go within a one hundred foot distance of any polling station in Philadelphia until 2012.

http://www.law.umaryland.edu/marshal...009letter6.pdf