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...Simone, Sobel and Pennington did very well, getting suspended sentences. Whitney may have lost very badly. He got a year and a half for assault and battery on a policeman. He will appeal. The real political lesson to be learned from the four trials is in why Whitney's sentence was the harshest...
Several participants in the four trials said they expected Pennington to be hit with the hardest sentence. He was the first person arrested in the Ryan trial disruptions, and he seemed to be a central figure in them. He got off with a light sentence...
...feeling was that if Pennington had not pleaded guilty, and if he had put a defense case like Whitney, he would have received the maximum sentence...
Handing down the sentence, Parker said that he felt that Pennington, being a senior in college, was old enough to understand that the rules against disruptions were there to give both sides chances to give their cases...
Several principals involved in the case indicated that they were pleased with its outcome. It had been feared that Pennington might receive the most severe sentence of the four arrested in the Ryan trial disruptions, because he was regarded as a central ague in the events of that...