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pc ensure 4 /- Charge him wows M ay day” Name wf? Dro; pped’ — Prosecutor * Frees Son of iex-Senator C) By Bart Barnes Washington Post Stet! Writer Michael B. McCarthy, son of former,-Minnesota Sen. * Eugene J.“McCarthy_ and _ One or those arrested during the Mayday antiwar protests; here last month, saw his case thrown out of court yesterday after prosecutors said they were unable to find out why he had been charged. “They had no case against whatsoever,” said Me- Carthy’s lawyer, Monroe H. Freedman, an assertion that was denied by Corporation , Counsel C. Francis Murphy. Murphy said there must have . been a Solid basis for the initial decision to prosecute McCar- thy. He said documents con- taining evidence against Mc- . Carthy could have been lost between his office and the courthouse and that this could “explain the inability of the prosecutor to locate the police- man who had arrested Me- y. *“T could not determine who ithe arresting officer was so J was unable to find out what ‘the defendant had done to get himself arrested, Assistant Corporation Counsel Andrew Zuceotti said. He ordered the disorderly conduct, charge: against McCarthy dropped, when the case was called for trial yesterday. MeCarthy was one of only a “pandful of Mayday cases in which the corporation coun _sel’s office had decided to go ahead with prosecutions in the| belief that ner was 594"| Vis cae i “It seems clear to me that it : wa tor pulitical reasons wat prosecutors decided to go ahead with McCarthy's case at - all, Freedman said. . McCarthy’s name was culled; from a list of 2,400 Mayday de- _fendants who had demanded _trials on the charges against . them. Only 24 from that list : were recommended for prose- cution and of that 24, only one; f has been convicted so far. x Of the more than 7,000 per-Y - sons arrested here May 3, oniy! i | 36 remain to be prosecuted. ° " All the others have had. ; charges dropped, forfeited cole! ‘ lateral or been acquitted anda t : Randful have been convicted. i About 1,000 persons arrested ; ’ May 4 in a sit down demon-? - stration outside the Justice. :* Department and another 1,000 3 i. - arrested the following day on 4 . the Capitol steps remain to be‘ 4 * processed by the courts. . i - McCarthy, whose father un- j successfully sought the 1968 ; Democratic presidential nomi-.. nation and ran against then { President Johnson in the New } 2 : Hampshire primary that year, 3 j ‘ is a junior at Harvard. He said, he: was arrested j about 9:15 a.m. on May 3ina- - police sweep at 20th and Mi - Streets NW. Protesters that morning had ’, i planned to block traffic on the . “14th Street Bridge and at 3 : other locations around town in ~ an attempt to close down the | 5 ** government. * yeach the target area,” “But we were unable to: Mc-3 . Carthy said and they were re- turning to Georgetown when _ police arrested them. There was no field arrest * - form on McCarthy and it was ; not until 4 a.m. the following! - day at the Washington Coli- ° . seum that his arrest papers : were filled out and he was in formed he was being charged | 2 i. - ft with disorderly conduct, hee , ve & os VA 25- “y wasn't charged with any-' ! thing when 1 was arrested,” he: ‘ vsaid. Lee cata ° 3 stereo a, Bishup ett) . Cader Dalbey Felt - Gale Rosen Tavel Walters Soyars Beaver Tele. Room . Holmes Gandy ; The Washington Per Cu] - Times Herald E os The Washington Daily News The Evening Star (Washington) ___ The Sunday Star (Washington) Daily News (New York) Sunday News (New York) New York Post The New York Times The Daily World The New Leader The Wall Street Journal The National Observer People’s World 1. a - eho. Tbs te Sf “NOT RECORDED Bt JUN 17 S7t