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the three-week proceedings in the trial of German Gonzalez, Maya Burke, Taylor McCann, Hunter Taylor-Black and Amy Zhai. The jury voted 9 to 3 to convict on a felony charge of vandalism and 8 to 4 to convict on a felony charge of conspiracy to trespass. After deliberating for five days, jurors said they could not reach a verdict. The jury started deliberations on Feb. 2, but was out this week due to a juror being sick. Judge Hanley Chew asked each one if more time deliberating would help break the impasse, and THE DAMAGE — These photos, all answered, “No.” “It appears that this jury is hopeincluded in court filings, show the lessly deadlocked, and I’m now dedamage done by Stanford pro[See MISTRIAL, page 19] testers.
A judge declared a mistrial yesterday in the case of five current and former Stanford University students charged after pro-Palestinian protests in 2024, when they barricaded themselves inside the university president and provost executive offices. The trial was a rare instance of demonstrators facing felony charges from protests over the Israel-Hamas war that roiled campuses across the country. The two sides argued over free speech, lawful dissent and crime during
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Board, teacher settle lawsuit
The Palo Alto school board has settled a lawsuit filed by teacher Peter Colombo, who claimed the school district mishandled an unsubstantiated rape allegation against him, court records show. Those records don’t show whether the district paid Colombo. School board president Shounak Dharap said
the settlement agreement has not been finalized, and could not provide any details, such as how much the district will pay Colombo. “The settlement agreement has been ratified by the board and all signatures have been obtained to finalize the agreement,” said a statement submitted to the court on Wednesday
by Eugene B. Elliot, an attorney with Bertrand, Fox, Elliot, Osman & Wenzel, the San Francisco law firm representing the school district. Colombo and his attorney Evan Nelson also declined to say how much Colombo will be paid, saying they’d like the settlement to be finalized be[See SETTLE, page 18]
Lack of Flock info unnerves council
Council voted 4-1 on Tuesday to look for an auditor after only 10 of Woodside City Council is consider- 117,723 requests from other agencies ing hiring a third-party auditor to re- were reviewed by San Mateo County view which agencies have accessed its sheriff’s deputies who patrol Woodside. Flock data after Mountain View turned Councilman Dick Brown voted no. Councilwoman Jenn Wall said it was off its cameras due to federal agencies hard to feel confident that Woodside’s accessing its data. BY ADRIANA HERNANDEZ Daily Post Staff Writer
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