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Ann Suellentrop gets justice: ‘Not guilty!’

Ann Suellentrop crossed the National Security Campus property line on 5/29 to protest the NSC's production of nuclear weapons. Her trial 10/25 ended in a surprise verdict.

Ann Suellentrop submits trial brief

Support Ann in court! She did civil resistance against nuclear weapons; her trial is Wed., 10/25, at 11th & Locust, KC MO. We rally there at noon and enter the courthouse at 1pm. This story is her trial brief.

Memorial Day ‘line crossers’ come to court

Kimmy Igla and Rylan Scott pleaded guilty for crossing the property line at the KC nuclear weapons plant, and Ann Suellentrop pleaded not guilty and comes to trial Oct. 25.

Good cheer: trespass case dismissed

The prosecutor asked me to plead guilty. I refused. … All of us are already being trespassed upon by the years of construction, deployment and threats to use nuclear weapons, on hair-trigger alert at all times.

Stoever refuses to plead guilty of trespass vs. nukes

"I must decline your offer to enter a plea of guilty," retired lawyer Henry Stoever says in a Sept. 11 letter to a prosecutor at Jackson County Court. Stoever, who stepped across the property line of the local nuclear weapon facility, hopes to explain to a jury next year why he was not guilty of the crime of trespass.

Judge gives Henry Stoever 2 years of probation, plus fees

Henry Stoever went to trial Feb. 23 after crossing the property line at the local nuclear weapons plant. After the trial, Henry said, “Officials have blinders on to what this plant is doing to the poor and to the Earth.”

Different Vibes

The drumbeats of war grow louder / As Russia forays into Ukraine on 2/22/22 … One disarmed lone lawyer goes to trial

Trial brief of Henry Stoever re resisting nuclear weapons

Henry Stoever was tried for crossing the property line at the local nuclear weapons plant Feb. 23. The prosecutor and judge refused to allow him to have as an exhibit his trial brief. They refused to allow him to argue the intent and purposes of his action. Here is the brief!

Judge tells nuke resisters, ‘Continue to fight for what you believe is right’

The four defendants at the Feb. 18 trial were voluntarily arrested for trespassing May 31, 2021, at the National Security Campus, operated by Honeywell for the National Nuclear Security Administration. As one of the defendants stated the day of the trial, “Why are we on trial and not those who make these weapons?”

“The protesters are on trial while the perpetrators are protected,” Jim Hannah tells court

“I plead my case to two higher courts for recourse—the court of global humanity, and the court of Divine justice,” Jim Hannah said Feb. 18. “Neither of these courts would find me or my co-defendants guilty for witnessing against nuclear weapons. More likely, they would judge us wanting if we had done nothing.”

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