Randy Rowland

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1960s
State:California
Support
Anti-War GI Resistance Presidio 27
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Biography

Randy Rowland was a U.S. Army soldier and one of the "Presidio 27" — the stockade prisoners who staged a sit-down protest on October 14, 1968, at the Presidio of San Francisco after a guard shot and killed the prisoner Richard Bunch. Charged with mutiny, a capital offense, Rowland was court-martialed and imprisoned; on appeal in June 1970 the mutiny convictions were reduced to willful disobedience, and he was released after about a year and a half.

Case

Presidio Stockade
Charges: Mutiny — for the October 1968 sit-down protest at the Presidio stockade (reduced to willful disobedience on appeal, June 1970).
Incarcerated: October 1968
Released: 1970
Sentence: Imprisoned about a year and a half; released in 1970 after the mutiny conviction was reduced on appeal. Verdict as recorded: Yes — court-martialed; mutiny reduced to willful disobedience on appeal.
Convicted: Yes
Institution State: California

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