Word: watson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Middlesex County jury convicted a former Harvard graduate student yesterday of assaulting Dean Watson during last April's occupation of University Hall...
...Offner was appealing a lower-court decision on the assault and battery charge. Last May 18, Cambridge District Court Judge Edward M. Viola, sitting without a jury, found him guilty after hearing Dean Watson testify that the teaching fellow in Mathematics was one of those who held him by the arms and pushed him out of University Hall the afternoon of April...
...Watson-the only witness for the Commonwealth-testified that as he was being led through the inside glass doors...
University Hall he looked over his right shoulder and saw that Offer "had hold of my right biceps with two hands." When he got outside the building, Watson said, he "was propelled up against the people who were standing on the stairs...
...Under cross-examination by Offer's lawyer Daniel Klubock, Watson said he was not injured in the scuffle. But Justice Sullivan told members of the jury that any use of "intentional, unjustified force of whatever degree" could be considered "battery" under the common...