Original sentence: In the early 1970s, he dismissed a case against eight members of the Ohio National Guard accused of violating the civil rights of four Kent State University students who were shot dead in 1970.Judge Battisti's career featured groundbreaking—and sometimes controversial—rulings, notably his finding that the Cleveland public school system was guilty of racial segregation.Then, in the 1980s, he presided over a case involving Cleveland autoworker John Demjanjuk, who was deported following charges that he committed war crimes in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe
Edited sentence: Judge Battisti's career featured groundbreaking—and sometimes controversial—rulings, notably his finding in 1976 that the Cleveland public school system was guilty of racial segregation.Then, in the 1980s, he presided over a case involving Cleveland autoworker John Demjanjuk, who was deported amid charges that he committed war crimes in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe.Two years earlier, in 1974, he dismissed a case against eight members of the Ohio National Guard accused of violating the civil rights of four Kent State University students who were shot dead four years earlier, in 1970