More than 50 ‘Occupy Wall Street’ people arrested on disorderly conduct charges tied to marches through New York City rejected a plea offer from Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance to drop their cases in six months.
About 78 people arrested during a Sept. 24 march to Union Square in Manhattan were scheduled to appear today before New York County Criminal Court Judge Neil Ross. More than 50 of those who appeared in court rejected an offer from prosecutors to dismiss the charges after six months if they’re not arrested again over that period.
The defendants will return to court in January, when lawyers representing them say they’ll move to dismiss the charges, according to Martin Stolar, one of about a dozen attorneys associated with the National Lawyers Guild who are representing some defendants.
“It has to do with the ambiguity of police instructions where people are told to go somewhere and they won’t be arrested,” Stolar said outside of court. “And then when people go there, they’re arrested. That strikes me as not justice.”
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