Date: 03-05-2013

Case Style: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. 12 Occupy Philadelphia Protesters

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Judge: Nina N. Wright Padilla

Court: Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania

Plaintiff's Attorney: Assistant District Attorney Jim Stinsman

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Description: The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania charged 12 Occupy Philadelphia Protesters with conspiracy and defiant trespass for staging a sit-in inside the Wells Fargo branch at 17th and Market Streets in Philadelphia on November 18, 2011.

The protesters said they wanted to call attention to what they called Wells Fargo's "racist predatory lending" policies that caused a disproportionately large number of home foreclosures in African American neighborhoods.

Outcome: Not guilty.

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