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...Rupert Crittenden, who has heard them testify in municipal court over the past five years, was moved to an expression of praise that is rare when courts talk about cops. "They present their cases cleanly and they're one hundred percent honest. I've seen them lose cases because they didn't want to fudge...
While Cal was welcoming Heyns, some of the looser ends of last winter's disorder were being tied up in Berkeley municipal court, where Judge Rupert Crittenden was passing out jail sentences of up to 90 days, most of them suspended, and fines ranging from $50 to $300 to some 754 convicted campus rebels. Nearly half of them informed Crittenden that they would not accept a probationary condition that he also imposed: to refrain from any more illegal demonstrations for up to two years. The judge responded with tougher sentences, generally the option of paying higher fines or going...
...students, of course, thought the sentences much too severe. At week's end, nearly 600 agitators gathered on the campus and then marched through Berkeley to rally outside Crittenden's courtroom. They sang We Shall Over come, heard Cal professors criticize U.S. policy in Viet Nam and Savio complain about U.S. justice. Also on hand was Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg, who clanged a pair of tiny cymbals and mumbled an unintelligible, prayerlike chant. What was he trying to say? "That was a magic formula to soothe and calm the heart of the judge," Ginsberg explained...
...trials to the 773 students arrested in last December's students' uprising on the Berkeley campus of the University of California would be one massive judicial headache, tying up the court and at least some of the students through next summer. Instead, Berkeley Municipal Court Judge Rupert Crittenden has been permitting the defend ants to file through court and waive their rights to a jury, thus leaving ver dicts to him. Periodically he asked them whether they understood that they were giving up a constitutional right. One day last week he put the question to Mario Savio, leader...
Replied Savio: "I understand fully the shameless hypocrisy to which the court has been reduced." After an electric silence, Crittenden asked Savio if he cared to repeat his statement. Savio did, and louder. "Mr. Savio," said the judge, "I'm going to cite you for contempt of court." Savio spent 28 hours in jail. His followers predictably held a mass rally to protest the court's action...