Charges against UC Berkeley professor involved in Occupy Cal dropped

http://www.dailycal.org/2012/05/04/charges-against-uc-berkeley-professor-involved-in-occupy-cal-dropped/

The criminal charges against UC Berkeley associate English professor Celeste Langan were dismissed at a hearing Friday morning almost six months after her initial arrest at the Nov. 9 Occupy Cal demonstrations.

Langan, one of 13 protesters and the only professor charged after the Nov. 9 demonstrations, faced one charge of obstructing an officer, one charge of obstructing a public place and one charge of remaining at the scene of a riot. She pled not guilty to the charges at preliminary hearings.

Although Langan and Kellin Cooper, Langan’s lawyer, were not present at the Wiley W. Manuel Courthouse Friday, Dustin Gordon, a partner from Cooper Law Offices, represented her case in front of Alameda County Superior Court Judge Carol Brosnahan.