More than a year and a half after a group of pro-Palestinian activists were accused of causing extensive property damage at Stanford University’s executive offices , five of the original defendants are set to stand trial next month on felony vandalism charges.

The five defendants proceeding to trial are Maya Burke, German Gonzalez, Taylor McCann, Hunter Taylor Black and Amy Zhai.

The rest of original 12 defendants have entered a court-supervised mental health diversion program that allows them to avoid criminal prosecution.

This group includes Gretchen Rose Guimarin, Cameron Pennington and Kaiden Wang, who told the court Monday that they intend to accept a judge-offered plea to lesser misdemeanor charges. The defendants headed for trial are expected to return to court for trial assign

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