Biography
Pun Plamondon was Lawrence Robert "Pun" Plamondon, of Ottawa/Odawa descent, and co-founded the White Panther Party with John Sinclair in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Indicted over the 1968 bombing of a CIA recruiting office, he went underground and in 1970 became the first counterculture figure on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. He served roughly 32 months in federal prison, and his prosecution produced the landmark 1972 Supreme Court "Keith" decision (United States v. U.S. District Court) barring warrantless domestic "national security" wiretaps — after which his charges were dismissed. He later became a Native American storyteller and wrote the memoir "Lost from the Ottawa."
A photograph caption in the Ann Arbor Sun of July 7, 1972 identifies Buck Davis as attorney for the CIA conspiracy trial, alongside Pun Plamondon after his release on bond and co-defendant John Sinclair. This identifies Davis’s role in that prosecution; it does not identify him as counsel in Plamondon’s separate draft-card or concealed-weapons cases. Contemporary Ann Arbor Sun issue.
The June 23, 1972 Ann Arbor Sun identifies Judge Fox in Grand Rapids as the judge in the separate draft-card case. It reports that he held a hearing that month and ordered credit for all the custody time at issue after prison officials sought to withhold eleven months of Wayne County Jail credit. This identifies a sentencing and custody-credit role in the draft-card case, rather than the CIA conspiracy case. Contemporary June 23 account.
The October 29–November 11, 1971 Ann Arbor Sun reports that Plamondon pleaded guilty on October 18 to possession of two illegal draft cards before Judge Fox in Grand Rapids and received a twenty-eight-month imposed term. It describes fifteen months already spent in county maximum-security jails, rather than fifteen additional months to add to later totals. The article reports continuous artificial light and untreated hernia complaints; an announced transfer to Terre Haute was still prospective. This identifies a phase of the draft-card proceedings without treating it as the outcome of the separate CIA-conspiracy case or altering the later twenty-three-month custody account.
Ann Arbor Sun, issue 19 (October 29–November 11, 1971), and Free John Now supplement.
