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Following an appeal that suspended a two-month jail sentence, Cheyney P. Ryan '70 is on probation until June, and Daniel P. Veech '70. Emily H. Bailey '70, and Thomas R. Bailey '73 have been given "a continuance without-finding" until June of their trial, which began last December...
...Ryan, Veech, and both Baileys were dismissed from the University in December 1969 for their participation in an obstructive sit-in in support of promoting Harvard's painters' helpers. Any student dismissed from the University is liable for trespass if he comes back on the campus...
...Veech said Sunday night, "Our continuance is a victory. It proves that the University thinks it's more worth-while to avoid militant trials like Cheyney's than send us to jail...
Archibald Cox '34, University troubleshooter, said Harvard asked for, and the Cambridge courts agreed to grant, a continuance to Veech and both. Baileys in response to an offer by the defendants. "The lawyers of the three defendants called and asked if the University would agree not to prosecute on the condition that they [the defendants] not engage in the same kind of misconduct again...
...Veech said that neither he nor the other two defendants has spoken to Cox about receiving a continuance on the condition that they not engage in further militant activities at Harvard, but he added, "Our lawyers said that we'd probably get a continuance." One of his co-defendants, Emily Bailey, said later, "We don't want to talk about this...