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Robert Good

Released
Date of birth:c. 1949
Age:77
Gender:Male
Era:1970s
State:New York
Support
Anti-War Catholic Worker Movement Camden 28 Catholic Left
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Biography

Age 22 at indictment; a former seminarian who studied five years with the Missionary Society of the Divine Word and attended Xavier University, Cincinnati. Active in the Cleveland civil-rights movement; at the time a NYC resident working with the Harrisburg Defense Committee. Acquitted in 1973.

Case

Charges: Conspiracy and destruction of Selective Service records (the August 22, 1971 Camden, NJ draft-board raid).
Arrested: August 1971
Incarcerated: August 1971
Sentence: No sentence — acquitted with all seventeen trial defendants on May 20, 1973. About three weeks of pretrial custody in August-September 1971 under the collective bail strategy (most defendants refused release until everyone could make bail); individual release date unresolved.
Convicted: No — acquitted