Charges Dropped Against MIT Pranksters
You can’t help but feel glad for the three MIT pranksters who will no longer be faced with the prospect of 20 years of jail time.
With the backing of MIT, Middlesex County prosecutors yesterday dropped criminal charges against three university students who sneaked into the MIT Faculty Club as part of the school’s tradition of pranks.
Students Kristina Brown, 19, David Nawi, 29, and Matthew Petersen, 19, appeared in Cambridge District Court, where prosecutors formally said no crime had been committed.
Prosecutors acted after Cambridge District Court Judge Severlin B. Singleton refused to dismiss the felony breaking and entering charges . Prosecutors later filed the necessary paperwork , and the case ended.
The students, under instruction from their attorneys, declined to comment about the case.
Speaking on behalf of the students, one of their attorneys, John M. Moscardelli, said the three were glad to no longer face criminal charges that carry up to 20 years imprisonment. “The defendants are gratified that the district attorney’s office chose to [drop] the case and that they were guided, in part, by the MIT administration and the MIT Police,” he said.
Let the pranks continue.
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Aaron Margolis is a life long resident of the Bay State, and works at an architectural firm north of Boston. Aaron has a Master of Architecture Degree from Boston Architectural College and is currently in the process of becoming of a Registered Architect.
Why the hell is a 29 year old still considered a student?
Graduate Student I would hope. I wouldn’t have minded seeing these kids spend some time in the slammer. I am not going to generalize people, but almost every person I have ever met to MIT was pompous. I even called one of them out and they said that they have a right to be cocky because they went to MIT. I guess that gives me a right to be cocky since I spent two tours in Iraq fighting so they can make money from the defense companies they work at.