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Four months after police and city officials vowed stiff penalties for those they described as professional agitators, cases are falling apart and the ijiost serious charges have been struck down. “You really have a situation where you're seeing it was an enormous overreaction,” said Pennsylvania ACLU legal director Stefan Presser. “The police department attempted to sell both the courts and the public a bill of goods which is now seen for what it is, which is ultimately just bad law enforcement.” Prosecutors say it is understand able that police witnesses might not always be able to identify individual protesters months later when the crowds at the time were large and conditions chaotic. “Sure it would be nice if every one had a wonderful memory and everything was captured in slow- motion video. ... This is to be ex pected,” said Assistant District At torney Trevan Borum. cl d work nd ded- You're going to have to have somebody come in here and testify that somebody did something wrong” — James M. DeLeon Penn. Municipal court judge 01391 people antstcH st mi ions coinciding^ vent ion. more than W/ misdemeanor defend® come to trial have had a dismissed or beenacqm: ing to records compilec|j cat j on trict attorney’s officeX rD (■ torneys. Of the 40 fete m ’ s wa y to more than half alre;. 5S _ charges reduced or dropt long aftei Most recently, 40acts ft)rn, bis ed at a street-blockingdy moved to Aug. 1 were acquitted'.;e, Texas, judge of conspiracy and nee of his of justice. Three were: >n the job: lesser offenses and sente: > seeing ne or community service. n § in , 111 Ai one point. S* 11 Judge James M. Del,? 1 " h, g h M s l„,S. •You're,f/'.'"" 1 '' 1 1 . .I University to have somebody coffi|j| olony testify that somebod; ;i oc , im -‘h; thing wrong.” ,_ h {me, ne ‘ len he -year-old : WTO protesters return to Seaffc^ lis sounds SEATTLE (AP) —The World Trade Organization meeting that collapsed in clouds of tear gas a year ago is being marked by activists this week in a city that is now known as much for civic haplessness as it is for its good coffee and charm. The violent anti-WTO street protests that over whelmed police on Nov. 30, 1999, left Seattle with permanent scars, some say, even as it galvanized a growing movement against corporate globalization. “One of the biggest things we learned with WTO is that Seattle is not Mayberry with high-rises,” said City Council member Judy Nicastro. “People don’t play nice anymore.” To mark the one-year anniversary, some 5,000 activists are expected to gather Thursday for “N30,” the International Solidarity Day Against Corporate Globalization. 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