Word: tanaka
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According to Tanaka, the judge at first said he would be willing to reduce his sentence if Tanaka would plead guilty...
...Tanaka and 12 local demonstrators were arrested last June in a protest against proposed state budget cuts outside the Massachusetts State House...
...protestors’ two-day trial began on Feb. 10. Tanaka, fearing a sentence of up to 30 days in jail, e-mailed his friends and asked them to come to the courtroom on Wednesday to show their support. Over half a dozen students answered Tanaka’s request...
Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky ’07, co-founder of Harvard Progressive Advocacy Group with Tanaka, said that he went to the courtroom on Wednesday to show his “solidarity as a friend...
...Tanaka said he and his fellow protestors used a “necessity defense” during the trial. They claimed that they had broke the law because they were faced with an “imminent threat”—namely that the budget cuts were a direct threat to the protestors and those with whom they worked...