Three Y-12 protesters denied new trial, face sentencing in January

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Source: Associated Press

A judge has denied a new trial for a nun and two other protesters who broke into a nuclear weapons plant in Tennessee.

The Knoxville News Sentinel reports that U.S. District Judge Amul R. Thapar also ruled this week against a motion to acquit the three.

The defendants — Sister Megan Rice and protesters Michael Walli and Greg Boertje-Obed — were convicted in May of sabotaging the plant and damaging federal property last year at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge. They are scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 28 in Knoxville and face up to 30 years in prison. They remain in federal custody.

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Numerous letters have been sent to Thapar asking for leniency when the three are sentenced and objecting to the government’s labeling of pacifists as terrorists.

Read more: http://www.tennessean.com/viewart/20131004/NEWS21/310040153/Three-Y-12-protesters-denied-new-trial-face-sentencing-January

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1. “Reasonable people can disagree about the propriety of that decision."

Well then hopefully Thapar won't see the need to "make an example" of these activists.

Oh wait, it's a Bush Judge. They are screwed.