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Frank Pommersheim

Released
Date of birth:1943
Age:83
Era:1970s
State:New York
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Anti-War Camden 28 Catholic Left
Frank Pommersheim

Biography

Frank Pommersheim, born 1943 in Queens, New York, graduated from Colgate University in 1965 and Columbia Law School in 1968 and worked as a VISTA lawyer in Alaska. In the Camden 28 case he was severed from the main trial and his charges were dismissed after the May 1973 acquittals — secondary biographies sometimes say he was "acquitted with the Camden 28", but the contemporary trial record shows he was not among the seventeen the jury acquitted. He became a leading scholar of federal Indian law at the University of South Dakota.

Case

Charges: Conspiracy and destruction of Selective Service records (the August 22, 1971 Camden, NJ draft-board raid).
Arrested: August 1971
Incarcerated: August 1971
Sentence: Never tried. Severed from the seventeen-defendant trial; the charges were dismissed after the jury acquitted all seventeen on May 20, 1973. About three weeks of pretrial custody in August-September 1971 under the collective bail strategy; individual release date unresolved.
Convicted: No — severed from the main trial; charges dismissed after the May 20, 1973 acquittals