The Charlottesville General District Court Friday morning found 17 Occupy Charlottesville protestors guilty of trespassing in Lee Park.
The protestors had been camped out in the park under a special events permit since mid-October. After the permit expired Nov. 30, though, the City arrested the Occupiers for violating the park's 11 p.m. curfew.
Originally, 18 people faced charges, but one man, Mario Brown, pled guilty. The Court sentenced him to community service in December.
Jeffrey Fogel, the group's defense attorney, said he disagreed with the judge's decision.
"The Supreme Court has been clear that politics should play no role in determining who gets the right to speak and not to speak on the streets of our city," Fogel said.
Veronica Fitzhugh, a protestor charged with indecent exposure after she stripped naked in front of police and spectators during the arrests in the early hours of Dec. 1,
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