{"id":1387,"date":"2026-06-22T21:41:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T21:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=1387"},"modified":"2026-06-22T21:41:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T21:41:33","slug":"a-delco-judge-denied-a-motion-to-dismiss-trespassing-charges-in-swarthmore-protest-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=1387","title":{"rendered":"A Delco judge denied a motion to dismiss trespassing charges in Swarthmore protest case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div><audio><\/audio><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A Delaware County judge on Monday denied a motion to dismiss criminal charges filed against nine people for refusing to leave a pro-Palestinian encampment on Swarthmore College\u2019s campus last spring, setting the stage for a trial next week.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=1385\">Advocates say Delaney Hall detainees have ended hunger strike<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Judge Dominic Pileggi ruled that prosecutors had presented sufficient evidence for the case to proceed to trial and allow a jury to decide whether  the so-called Swarthmore 9 had trespassed.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The group was arrested and briefly detained outside the college\u2019s Trotter Hall in May 2025 when officers from surrounding police departments dismantled their encampment protesting the war in Gaza and Swarthmore\u2019s IT contract with Cisco, a company that does business with the Israeli government.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Of the nine people arrested, only one, Jace Boland, is a student at the college. Another, Brendan Cook, is a former student who was suspended for participating in an earlier protest in 2024, but the rest are not affiliated with Swarthmore, according to school officials.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Members of the group \u2014 Boland, Cook, Jonathan Britt, Mara Helen Cahill, Daria C. Dressler, Thomas Falcone, Colin Buckley Malcarney, Riley J. McManus, and Andrew Thomas \u2014 have all been charged with trespassing, a third-degree misdemeanor. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>District Attorney Tanner Rouse has said his office offered each member of the group a plea deal that would see those charges reduced to summary offenses, similar to traffic citations, that could be resolved by paying a fine.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The group has refused, saying pleading guilty would set a precedent on how colleges across the country could curtail students\u2019 protest rights.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>During Monday\u2019s hearing, the group\u2019s attorney, Marni Jo Snyder, argued that Swarthmore and county prosecutors violated the protestors\u2019 constitutional rights by arresting them.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=1383\">Brian Fitzpatrick ties the knot with Fox News\u2019 Jacqui Heinrich in NYC wedding<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>She noted that Swarthmore changed its policy allowing protests on its campus to explicitly outlaw encampments after a similar, monthlong demonstration in the same location in 2024.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Policing a specific type of expressive speech, she said, is illegal.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe policy is wrong, the repeated orders to leave are wrong,\u201d she said. \u201cThese are improper responses to constitutionally protected speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Snyder said that, though Swarthmore\u2019s campus is private property, administrators have allowed previous demonstrations to be held there, as well as other quasi-private events. The arrests in this case, she said, showed that prosecutors were specifically targeting demonstrators protesting the war in Gaza.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Samantha Door, who represented the district attorney\u2019s office at the hearing, disputed that, saying the protestors\u2019 conduct, and not the purpose of the encampment, was the reason criminal charges were filed.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Swarthmore issued multiple warnings to the group to disperse over the course of three days, Door said, including one final warning 10 minutes before the encampment was dismantled.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Other protestors who left the encampment and continued to chant and hold protest signs were not arrested, she said.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Also, Door said administrators raised concerns about public safety, since many of the protestors wore masks and refused to identify themselves, vandalized campus property with graffiti, and used pallets and other materials to create barricades around the encampment.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=1381\">\u2018Snuffed her life out\u2019: Man accused of randomly shooting CHOP nurse in Tredyffrin Township appears in court<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The trial in the case is scheduled to begin with jury selection on June 30.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyers for the so-called &quot;Swarthmore 9&quot; argued that their arrests were unconstitutional because they targeted a specific type of protest speech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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