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Federal criminal charges were brought against eight Ohio National Guardsmen in 1974 but Judge Frank J. Battisti dismissed the case and acquitted them mid‑trial for insufficient proof of willful civil‑...
The criminal prosecution of eight Ohio National Guardsmen for the May 4, 1970, Kent State shootings ended in acquittal when U.S. District Judge Frank J. Battisti ordered acquittals in November 1974, f...
The Guardsmen’s defenses in the legal fallout from the May 4, 1970 centered on claims of self-defense — including assertions that they had been fired upon by a sniper — and on procedural and evidentia...