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Disorderly Conduct

Mr. Ogle and the other 25 persons had been
charged with an assortment of violations, mostly
disorderly conduct and failure to disperse. Mr.
Ogle had been convicted and sentenced to 6
months in jail and a fine in addition. The former
Student Council president was appealing the
decision.

The decision to nol prosse these 26 cases
pending in the Charlottesville courts finishes the
tale of the Charlottesville 68.

Bob Collector was convicted last summer on
charges of failure to disperse and fined $50 in
County Court. Downing Smith, Commonwealth's
Attorney for the county, reported yesterday that
Mr. Collector, a fourth-year student who has left the
University, had planned to appeal the ruling but, when
the appeal was heard in October in the Circuit Court, Mr.
Collector settled for the same sentence and his conviction
was upheld.

The 26 persons whose cases were dropped yesterday
were among 68 who were arrested early Saturday
morning, May 9, during the student strike at the
University. Except for Mr. Collector's case, the rest of the
cases were nol prossed previously.

In his statement released yesterday, Mr. Camblos said
that, "for various reasons: exams, summer vacation,
requests of defense attorneys, and a crowded court
docket," those cases dropped today had not been heard.