Biography
Richard Delaney was a grand jury resister jailed for civil contempt in 1982–83, one of seven people named in In re Sunni-Ali (565 F. Supp. 1035, S.D.N.Y. 1983) held at New York's Metropolitan Correctional Center for refusing to testify before the federal grand jury investigating the October 20, 1981 Brink's armored-truck robbery in Nyack, New York — an action of the Black Liberation Army and Republic of New Afrika. Per Black Liberation Army defendant Kuwasi Balagoon's trial statement, Delaney and his co-resisters were jailed "for 18 months or more," imprisoned not for any charged crime but for refusing to cooperate with the grand jury. He was associated with the Black Acupuncture Advisory Association of North America (BAAANA), the Harlem clinic at the center of the investigation.
