Biography
Michael Henry Marcus was an anti-nuclear protester and Berkeley Free Speech Movement participant who later became an Oregon judge. He recalled serving thirty days at Santa Rita following an Atomic Energy Commission sit-in.
Photo credit
In his U.S. District Court Historical Society oral history, Marcus identified Judge Rupert W. Crittenden as the judge in his Atomic Energy Commission protest case. Representing himself, Marcus won dismissal of the unlawful-assembly charge because he was the sole remaining protester; the jury convicted him on the other two charges. He separately recalled being arrested at Sproul Hall in 1964 and serving as a student liaison between defense lawyers and approximately eight hundred defendants. Source: Michael Marcus oral history, pp. 16–18, U.S. District Court Historical Society.
