The Chicago Seven case was far from Hoffman's only high-profile case: he also presided over a tax evasion case against mobster Tony Accardo and an obscenity case against comedian Lenny Bruce. His brutal and biased actions in the Chicago Seven case, however, made him a household name, and an unpopular one at that. In 1982, the year before his death, he was ordered to not take any more new cases due to his behaviour. He died of natural causes in 1983.