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Court Dorsey

Released
Era:1970s
State:New Hampshire
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Clamshell Alliance
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Biography

Court Dorsey joined the Clamshell Alliance occupation at Seabrook with the Crumbs of Bliss affinity group in 1977. His account describes two weeks detained in the Somersworth National Guard Armory. He later challenged the exclusion of a necessity defense at his criminal-trespass trial.

Case

Charges: Criminal trespass (New Hampshire RSA 635:2)
Arrested: May 1977
Sentence: Approximately two weeks of armory detention after the 1977 occupation. The individual sentence length and actual release day are not verified.
Convicted: Jury conviction; competing-harms appeal rejected in State v. Dorsey (1978)