[tutstar]

After viewing a videotape of the incident at the December 14 hearing, Municipal Court Judge William Austin Meehan dropped charges against six other defendants, including a 72-year-old grandmother. A juvenile defendant awaits separate court action.

This is confusing IMO, we knew that charges had already been dropped against some of them. Anyone have any info which judge this is?

[DirtyHarryY2K]

See #43

I'm not too sure about this report. Need more info.

[Cicero]

I've gone to read the article about the acquittal, and it's not at all clear whether the 4 who were not cleared earlier by Judge Meehan have now been acquitted or not. The article is very confusing. Even the headline is confusing. It seems to have been rewritten in midcourse, and it does not seem to be borne out by the article.

I'd like to see a more definite report of this from a source that names the judge and the date of the acquittal before concluding that this confusing report is reliable.