San Francisco Drops Charges Against Most War Protesters
San Francisco has dropped criminal charges against all but about 20 of the 407 war protesters .
....The decision was based largely on the difficulty in prosecuting individuals in what were essentially mass arrests. [Asst. District Attorney Messini] said the Police Department had indicated that it could not "establish the facts necessary to convict any of these individuals" because the arrest reports were too general.
"Identifying individual acts of the protesters arrested was continuing to be very problematic," Mr. Menesini said. "As a consequence, the district attorney felt it was in the interest of justice to just bite the bullet and stand up and do what was right. That is always difficult."
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