Jury deadlocked within the trial of Stanford college students charged after pro-Palestinian protests in 2024 | EUROtoday

A jury has deadlocked within the trial of 5 present and former Stanford University college students charged after pro-Palestinian protests in 2024.

The college students confronted felony prices for vandalism and conspiracy to trespass after they barricaded themselves contained in the college president and provost government places of work.

Santa Clara County prosecutors mentioned demonstrators broke furnishings and splattered a crimson liquid described as faux blood on objects all through the places of work.

Defense attorneys mentioned the protest was protected speech and there was no intent to break property.

The trial in California’s Silicon Valley is a uncommon occasion of demonstrators dealing with felony prices from the wave of campus protests that 12 months.