Biography
Beverly “Bev” Rice is a Manhattan antiwar activist who was prosecuted after a December 1, 2009 protest at West Point, where President Barack Obama announced an expansion of the war in Afghanistan. On March 19, 2013, Rice and five other protesters were sentenced for disorderly conduct. She refused to pay court costs or perform court-ordered community service, offering instead to support the National Lawyers Guild. She was taken to Orange County Jail and sentenced to ten days, but was released after serving three.
Calculated release date for the stay beginning March 19, 2013: March 22, 2013, adding the recorded completed custody duration of 3 days with elapsed-calendar-day counting. This is a calculated date from the recorded admission and duration, not a separately documented physical-discharge date.
Calculated release date
Calculated release date for the stay beginning March 19, 2013: March 22, 2013, adding the recorded completed custody duration of 3 days with elapsed-calendar-day counting. This is a calculated date from the recorded admission and duration, not a separately documented physical-discharge date.
The contemporary Jerry Berrigan Memorial Drone Blockade report individually names Bev Rice among twelve people arrested at Hancock Field on January 28, 2016. It reports one misdemeanor and two violations for each participant without naming those offenses. It also reports an additional order-of-protection misdemeanor for Rice and Pleune. An individual jail admission, physical release, imposed sentence and completed custody duration are not established by this account. Contemporary report, The Nuclear Resister.
The contemporary report individually names this participant among those arrested at Hancock Air Base on April 28, 2013 after the anti-drone funeral procession. Its follow-up specifically includes this person in the twenty-one-person arraignment list. The report names Benack, Gideon and Jokl collectively as the judges and gives a range of bail amounts; it does not assign one judge or bail amount to each listed individual. Contemporary source.
The sheriff’s roster reproduced with the April 22, 2011 Hancock Field protest report individually named Beverly Rice among the people arrested outside the base in the anti-drone demonstration. The article reports trespassing and obstruction-of-justice charges. It describes handcuffs, a wait, and boarding a bus intended for Justice Center processing; it does not establish an individual jail-admission or release time.
Sources: The Nuclear Resister, report 893.
The contemporary report names John Amidon, Ed Kinane, Jules Orkin and Bev Rice among those arrested at Hancock on December 23, 2016. Its update reports their later release with trespass, two disorderly-conduct counts and obstruction of governmental administration charges; it does not give a precise physical-release day. Contemporary report, The Nuclear Resister.
The March 19, 2015 Hancock report names Beverly Rice among seven people arrested after blocking the base gate with oversized books representing anti-war and human-rights texts. It does not establish this person’s individual statutory charge, release date, admission date or detention duration. The activists’ citizens’ indictment is distinguished from an indictment issued by a court.
Sources: Contemporary report.
