Biography
Christopher Spicer crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the annual SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army School of the Americas / Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. Convicted of trespass on a military installation and sentenced to 6 months in federal custody.
Each year on the November anniversary of the assassination of six Jesuits, their housekeeper, and her daughter at the University of Central America in San Salvador in 1989, peace activists gather at the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia (now Fort Moore), site of the U.S. Army School of the Americas / Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), to commemorate the dead and to call for the school's closure. Hundreds have crossed the line onto the base over four decades of vigils; many have served federal sentences ranging from 30 days to a year for trespass.
Calculated release date for the stay beginning January 26, 2014: January 28, 2014, adding the recorded completed custody duration of 2 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 January 26, 2014: January 28, 2014, adding the recorded completed custody duration of 2 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 NATO-summit account identifies Chris Spicer among the Catholic Workers arrested for trespass at Obama’s Chicago campaign headquarters on May 14, 2012. It reports his not-guilty plea and refusal to post $100 bond, followed by posting bond at an appearance described as nine days later; a July 11 bench trial was still prospective. The report does not supply an independently exact release day or a completed numeric custody total. This Chicago episode is distinct from his earlier Fort Benning case. Contemporary source.
The contemporary Good Friday 2012 report identifies Chris Spicer of the White Rose Catholic Worker in Chicago among eleven people arrested after three warnings to leave the Pentagon sidewalk. The account reports a failure-to-comply-with-a-lawful-order charge and a then-future May 18 court appearance. Contemporary report.
Chris Spicer was arrested at Y-12 on January 26, 2014 and held for two days. He then left Tennessee, a release gap separating this detention from his later August surrender. No exact January release day is inferred.
Sources: The Nuclear Resister, No.175.
Chris Spicer surrendered at the Anderson County detention center August 10, 2014 and was jailed until court four days later. He pleaded guilty, received thirty days suspended and a fine, and was physically released August 14. These four elapsed days are separate from his January detention and the suspended term.
Sources: The Nuclear Resister, No.175.
