Harvard students won't face charges
At Harvard University's request, the Middlesex district attorney's office has dropped charges against four undergraduate students who were arrested after their protest chants interrupted FBI director Robert S. Mueller Jr.'s speech on campus last month.
Cambridge District Court Judge Roanne Sragow dismissed the charges at the request of District Attorney Gerald T. Leone Jr.'s office yesterday, according to Leone's spokesman, Corey Welford .
Michael Gould-Wartofsky , Kelly Lee , and Maura Roosevelt, all 22, and Jennifer Claire Provost, 21, had been charged with disturbing a public assembly, a misdemeanor. Harvard asked for the charges to be dropped, according to a university statement, because "more could have been done in the circumstances to apprise the students that they were in jeopardy of arrest."
Welford said the office typically drops charges against students at their institution's request in cases where there is no victim and the defendants lack prior records.
He said Harvard indicated it would pursue the case through its disciplinary system. A Harvard spokesman said the university does not comment on student disciplinary matters. 