Footnote 8: He had been indicted with Charles Gavan Duffy and others for seditious conspiracy.

In 1981, Rivera was sentenced to 55 years in prison for charges including seditious conspiracy.

It was a long and laborious one; he was committed for trial for a seditious conspiracy, but he was held to bail.

In 1886 he was charged (with Messrs. Hyndman, Champion, and Williams) with seditious conspiracy-afteran unemployed riot in the West End-and acquitted.