Defendants charged in the felony vandalism case stemming from a June 2024 pro-Palestinian protest at Stanford University pleaded not guilty Wednesday to all charges at the Santa Clara County Superior Court in Palo Alto.

The 12 defendants — mostly current and former Stanford students and alumni — were arraigned last May and are accused of causing between $360,000 and $1 million in damage during a takeover of university administrative offices, a figure student activists have called an “exaggeration.”

On the same day as the protest, some of the school’s historic sandstone buildings were defaced with profanity-laced graffiti. A pro-Palestine student encampment was also forcibly dismantled following the protest.

Judge Thomas Kuhnle met with the district attorneys and defense lawyers in chamb

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