Word: berge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...month after Offner's trial, a Superior Court Grand Jury indicted Kilbreth and Berg. Watson had charged Berg with ejecting him from University Hall before the Committee of 15 last...
Watson said at the trial that Berg had grabbed him near the south corridor of University Hall and shoved him out of the building into a crowd of people massed on the building's steps. He added that he had no knowledge of Kilbreth's assaulting him, and the prosecutor entered as evidence a transcript of Kilbreth's former testimony...
...Berg and Kilbreth- who conducted their own defense- contested the validity of Kilbreth's testimony on the grounds that he had not been informed of his constitutional rights prior to questioning. They added that Watson was left uninjured by the "assault"- a statement which Watson had already confirmed...
...After several minutes of Berg's summary remarks. Coddaire ruled him out of order, but Berg continued to speak. Four court guards grabbed Berg, and others held Kilbreth as he jumped out of his seat...
Prosecuting attorney Douglas Rowe asked for the maximum two-and-a-half-year sentence because Berg and Kilbreth were prepared to use "whatever personal violence was nessary" to eject Watson from University Hall...