Outlaw Chess Players Likely to Have Charges Dismissed

December 29, 2010, 11:01 am

Outlaw Chess Players Likely to Have Charges Dismissed

By ANDY NEWMAN

Updated, 1:15 p.m. | The men who were hit with criminal summonses for playing chess at a playground in Inwood Hill Park in Upper Manhattan are in line to have their charges, which carried penalties of up to 90 days in jail and a $1,000 fine, dismissed.
At a hearing in Manhattan on Tuesday, a judicial hearing officer offered the five men who showed up “adjournments in contemplation of dismissal,” meaning that if they stay out of trouble for six months, the summonses will be vacated, said Norman H. Siegel, the lawyer for the men. Read more…