Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clearly imply that two years is not a dis-proportionate sentence were Collins, indeed, guilty of assault and battery and possession of marijuana. However, for disruption of classes at Harvard, "Two years in prison is too harsh a punishment...
...agree or disagree with a long list of statements, including the following: "American colleges and universities must be destroyed before they can be reformed." "I am in graduate school in order to avoid the draft." "Faculty members should be free on campus to advocate violent resistance to public authority." 'Marijuana should be legalized...
...charges that may put Collins, Peter D. Waring, Peter O'Grady, and Edward J. Hyman in jail have no direct relation to their activities at Harvard. Collins faces two years for two counts of assault and battery, plus a third year, to be served concurrently, for possession of marijuana. Waring received one year for assault and battery; O'Grady and Hyman each six months for possession of marijuana...
...marijuana charge is similarly tenuous. A bag containing a quarter of an ounce was found in the paddy wagon shortly after the defendants left. It is uncertain who, if any of the defendants knew of the bag's presence. And it is unlikely that they left it there at all. The safest place to hie drugs is not a police car--and it is questionable whether anyone in a position likely to be arrested would carry drugs in the first place...
...preliminary hearings. A jury trial in he Superior Court is set for sometime in April. It is to be hoped that the Superior Court will approach the evidence with more of an open mind than did Judge Viola. Certainly the evidence surrounding assault and battery and possession of marijuana is at best doubtful, and thus it is hard to avoid the suspicion that Collins and his friends were framed. All that has been convincingly proved thus far is that Collins'' group disrupted some classes at Harvard. Two years in prison is too harsh a punishment for that...