AP is reporting that all 18 members of the Granny Peace Brigade were acquitted today of all charges.
This is a story that is more entertaining than it is political; the NY Times ran a piece on it last Friday that pointed up the improbability of any of the defendants suffering any penalty for their October 17 protest at the Times Square recruiting station, when they all insisted that they wanted to enlist for the Iraq occupation.
Both the judge and the prosecuters were in a most untenable position; apparently, D.A. Robert Morgenthau, pressed to prosecute for political reasons, assigned two of his least-experienced prosecutors to the case, knowing that there was not a hope in hell of winning.