After one dropped case and one acquittal, seven of the remaining eight D.C. voting rights protesters put on trial for arrests at demonstrations in April were found guilty today of blocking traffic. One other protester was acquitted.

During a two-day trial at D.C. Superior Court, attorneys for the eight protesters — Jack E. Evans, Eugene Dewitt Kinlow, Deangelo B. Scott, Lawrence Harris, Anise Jenkins, Adam Maier, Robert V. Brannum and Michael D. Brown — tried to argue that their clients had spontaneously spilled from sidewalks onto the streets, and that they were not purposefully blocking traffic.

D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton testified on their behalf, trying to explain what had motivated the April 11 protest on Capitol Hill where 41 people, including Mayor Vince Gray and members of the D.C. Council, to protest. Brown, one of the District’s Shadow Senators, was the only defendant not arrested on April 11; he was arrested four days later alongside two other people in a similar protest.

Evans, Kinlow, Scott, Harris, Maier, Brannum and Brown were found guilty; Jenkins was acquitted. Those found guilty will be forced to pay small fines.

All told, some 72 people were arrested this year protesting for D.C. voting rights, self-determination and statehood. The majority of those arrested paid fines and opted not to go to trial.