Biography
Virginia Lee Hunter joined the Hatfield’s Ferry smokestack protest against the Bush administration’s energy policy and later served a five-day jail term.
Josh Krysak’s February 16, 2005 courthouse report individually names Virginia Lee Hunter among the six Greenpeace smokestack defendants who pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment, failure to disperse, disorderly conduct and summary criminal mischief. It identifies Judge Terry Grimes and District Attorney Marjorie Fox. Felony and federal charges were dropped, as was the criminal-trespass charge. Five defendants received five-day sentences; Joshua Raisler Cohn received thirty days because of a prior nonviolent-protest conviction. The April follow-up reports that the defendants had spent time in jail and specifically says Cohn served thirty days. The restitution dispute remained unresolved in April; the original $94,577 award is not treated as a final surviving restitution outcome. Original sentencing report; April restitution follow-up.
