Jury to decide: Protesters disrupted or interrupted speech?
By uzzie on America from www.ocregister.com
Prosecutors called it a “heckler’s veto” and a planned disruption of an Israeli diplomat’s speech at the UCI campus by 10 students with the intent to shut down the event.
Attorneys for the students on trial labeled it a carefully planned peaceful “interruption” and a “lawful expression of free speech.”
With those descriptions, opening statements got underway Wednesday afternoon in the trial of the students – seven from UCI and three from UC Riverside – accused of disrupting the Feb. 8, 20
