Word: violas
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...attorneys outlined the defense case in three motions for acquittal following the last prosecution witness. Judge M. Edward Viola denied the motions. Three lawyers, each speaking for all the defendants, asked for immediate acquittal on the following grounds...
McCarthy interrupted King's answer twice. The student was flustered for a few seconds, regained his composure, and said "because I was being struck by a police officer." The defendants burst into cheers and applause. When it ceased, Viola said "next time that happens, I'll clear the court...
...Viola allowed the film to be shown, but interrupted it near the end, telling McCarthy "you are not showing what you said you would." The film mostly depicted persons being cleared from the steps and taken out of the building. Viola declared the film inadmissible as evidence...
HARVARD SHOULD NOT be surprised by the failure of its efforts to get criminal charges dropped against those students who sat in last week at University Hall. Neither Judge Edward M. Viola nor the people of Cambridge take kindly to seeing Harvard use outside police as a kind of private army, to do the University's rather than the community's bidding...
...escape, confronting him with Harvard's own punitive action. The principle of double jeopardy may not legally apply here, but the common sense behind that principle remains compelling. When President Pusey called in the police Thursday morning, he abdicated his and therefore the University's authority, as Judge Viola has clearly demonstrated. Whatever else it does, Harvard cannot now impose its own discipline on the arrested students. This is the only fair conclusion for the Faculty, the Corporation, and the so-called Committee of Fifteen to reach...