Gina Lynn

Released
Era:1990s
State:California
Time Imprisoned:
3 Days
Support
Animal Liberation Movement Animal Rights Direct Action Coalition
Gina Lynn

Biography

Gina Lynn organized with the Animal Rights Direct Action Coalition and volunteered for No Compromise. Her resistance to federal grand juries led to separate jail stays in California and Missouri in 1999 and at SeaTac in 2004.

Cases

Charges: Contempt warrant for declining a federal grand-jury appearance
Arrested: Sep 10, 1999
Incarcerated: Sep 10, 1999
Released: Sep 13, 1999
Sentence: Held in an Oakland jail over the weekend, September 10–13, 1999; released on a promise to attend proceedings in Missouri.
Charges: Contempt for refusing to cooperate with a federal grand jury
Incarcerated: Oct 5, 1999
Sentence: Taken into custody October 5, 1999, in Missouri; her account was published while she was held at St. Louis County Jail in Clayton. Release date unverified.
SeaTac Federal Detention Center
Charges: Civil contempt for refusing federal grand-jury testimony
Incarcerated: Aug 26, 2004
Sentence: Confined at SeaTac beginning August 26, 2004. Released in September after about three weeks when the judge concluded that continued confinement would not compel testimony.
Institution State: Washington

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