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Mary Sprunger-Froese

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

Mary Sprunger-Froese, with her husband Peter, has lived since 1979 at the Bijou Community, an intentional faith-based community in Colorado Springs working for nonviolence, hospitality, and social justice. She is a longtime war tax resister and is artist-in-residence at RAWtools (which forges donated guns into garden tools), where she leads multi-age programs in storytelling, rap, skits, and de-escalation training.

Case

Charges: Felony criminal mischief (class 4); felony burglary (Martin Marietta MX Witness action, Denver)
Arrested: Sep 26, 1985
Incarcerated: Sep 26, 1985
Released: 1986
Sentence: Two months in prison; convictions later reversed on appeal on indigency-determination grounds (Colorado Court of Appeals; companion ruling in People v. Nord, 1990). Verdict as recorded: Yes (later reversed on appeal)
Convicted: Yes