Olive Armstrong

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

Olive Armstrong was one of the New York 8+ grand-jury resisters jailed for refusing to testify in the investigation of Black political activists. Contemporary reporting and a federal court opinion establish confinement over several months in 1985 and her release that July.

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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