Nun, 85, in nuclear protest set to remain free after sabotage charge dropped

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Source: Guardian

An 85-year-old nun and two fellow Catholic peace activists will probably remain free after government prosecutors told defense attorneys they will not seek to have a sabotage charge reconsidered.

Sister Megan Rice was originally sentenced to three years and Michael Walli and Greg Boertje-Obed were each sentenced to nearly five years for vandalizing the outside of a Tennessee bunker storing bomb-grade uranium.

Last month, a panel of the sixth US circuit court of appeals overturned the most serious conviction against the three. The court upheld a conviction for injuring government property.

On 28 July 2012, the activists cut through several fences at the Y-12 national security complex in Oak Ridge to reach the uranium storage bunker. Once there, they hung banners, prayed and hammered on the outside wall of the bunker to symbolize a Bible passage that refers to the end of war: “They will beat their swords into ploughshares.”

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/22/nun-nuclear-protest-remain-free-sabotage-charge-dropped

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1. Hooray!

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2. Rice is "just ecstatic, delighted and very pleased"

http://www.trust.org/item/20150622181958-z5sxg/?source=fiTheWire

Nun who broke into Tenn. nuclear facility likely to stay free
Source: Reuters - Mon, 22 Jun 2015 18:18 GMT

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The appellate court had upheld the trio's convictions for the lesser crime of injury to government property. But the three have already served more time than is usual on those charges, and were released from prison on May 16 pending resentencing, defense attorney Marc Shapiro.

Shapiro said Rice is "just ecstatic, delighted and very pleased to see that the confirmation that the 6th Circuit got it right and the government is not going to continue to press the issue."

A resentencing date has not yet been set.

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