Eve Rosahn

Released
Gender:Female
Race:White
Era:1980s
State:New York
Time Imprisoned:
1 Month 29 Days
Support
Anti-Imperialism Black Liberation
Eve Rosahn

Biography

White anti-imperialist activist jailed for civil contempt in the early 1980s after refusing to cooperate with federal grand juries investigating the Black Liberation Army and the 1981 Brink's/Nyack case. Listed as a North American political prisoner in PFOC Breakthrough magazine. Documented in PFOC Breakthrough magazine.

Case

Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York
Charges: Civil contempt under 28 U.S.C. § 1826.
Arrested: Jan 1, 1982
Incarcerated: November 1981
Released: Dec 30, 1981
Sentence: Coercive civil confinement until compliance, expiration of the grand jury's term, or May 9, 1983 (whichever came first); released on bail pending appeal on Dec. 30, 1981. Charges as recorded: Civil contempt under 28 U.S.C. § 1826 for refusing to comply with a federal grand jury subpoena duces tecum — declining to provide photographs, fingerprints, handwriting exemplars, and hair samples — in the Southern District of New York grand jury investigation of the October 20, 1981 Brink's/Nyack armored-truck robbery.
Judge: Irving Ben Cooper (S.D.N.Y.)
Convicted: Civil contempt (28 U.S.C. § 1826); the adjudication was vacated by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Jan. 29, 1982 (671 F.2d 690), which held that trying the contempt in secret over her objection violated her Fifth Amendment right to a public trial.
Institution State: New York

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