Because of yesterday's crowded trial list, a Middlesex County Superior Court judge postponed until later this week the appeal of six Harvard students charged with disturbing the peace while putting up posters early in the morning of Oct. 2.
Three Charges
Cambridge police arrested the defendants in front of Claverly Hall at 3:15 a.m. and initially charged them with disorderly conduct, defacing private property, and disturbing the peace. Later Judge M. Edward Viola of Third District Court dismissed the first two charges, but found the defendants guilty of disturbing the peace and fined them each $200.
"If we can prove they were not disturbing the peace," Jesse C. Kasowitz, one of the defense attorneys, said last night, "then they'll be let off." In order to do this Kasowitz plans to have as many Claverly residents as possible testify that they were not disturbed that morning.
Sleepers
The defendants have asked that all Claverly Hall residents who slept undisturbed that morning contact them in order to testify at the trial.
The six defendants are: Jon Berman '70, Jonathan Levinson '73, Ellen J. Messing '72, Lowry Hemphill '72, Vann R. McGee '71 and Peter K. Knapp, a third year graduate student in Mathematics.
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