Word: stewart
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to David Nies, a lawyer who was in the courtroom when Stewart pleaded and who argued her case for her, gratis, Stewart risked as much as $1500 by pleading not guilty to the charges...
When she refused to plead guilty and pay $65 in fines and court costs, Nies said, Stewart left herself vulnerable to the four-digit court costs...
...Stewart said she was harassed because she was a Harvard student, citing what she termed strange behavior on the part of arresting patrolman Thomas Tosi...
According to Stewart, Tosi stopped her postering and confiscated the handbills, and then after discovering she was a Harvard student asked her if she had a job and if her parents supported her before asking her to leave...
...this point, added Stewart, one of her two companions asked for the posters back. Tosi refused, she said, and asked if Stewart's friend wanted her to be arrested...