Jacqueline Bernard

AKA: Jackie Bernard
Released
Era:1980s
State:New York
Time Imprisoned:
6 Months 10 Days
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New York 8+ grand jury resisters
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Biography

Jacqueline Bernard, also reported as Jackie Bernard, was a New York 8+ grand-jury resister. She spent months in federal custody in 1985 after refusing to testify in the investigation of Black political activists. Contemporary reporting and a later federal court opinion document her confinement and release.

Case

Charges: Civil contempt — refusal to testify before the grand jury investigating the New York 8+
Incarcerated: Jan 21, 1985
Released: Jul 31, 1985
Sentence: Civil confinement for refusing grand-jury testimony; released 1985-07-31. This was coercive civil contempt, not a conviction on the New York 8 defendants' criminal charges.

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