United States v. Montgomery

RONEY, Circuit Judge:

Early on the morning of Easter Sunday, 1984, eight members of the group “Pershing Plowshares,” which is opposed to the production and spread of nuclear weapons, cut through a fence surrounding the Martin-Marietta Aerospace Corporation’s defense plant in Orlando, Florida. Entering a building within the compound, they hammered and poured blood onto both nuclear and conventional missile launchers and components belonging to the United States Army, hung banners and distributed pictures and documents condemning nuclear weapons around the scene, and remained on the premises…