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Mary Lyons

Released
Gender:Female
Race:White
Era:1980s
State:Connecticut
Support
Anti-War Anti-Nuclear Plowshares Movement
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Biography

Mary Lyons was a history teacher, mother of five, and grandmother from Hartford, Connecticut. She testified at the AVCO trial about her religious and moral reasoning for entering the plant. No further sourceable biographical detail was found.

Case

Charges: Wanton destruction of property; trespass (AVCO Plowshares action against MX and Trident II nose cones)
Arrested: Jul 13, 1983
Incarcerated: Jul 13, 1983
Sentence: Up to 3.5 months in jail. After roughly seven years of appeals the defendants were resentenced in 1990 to time served (about two weeks for most).
Convicted: Yes