Legal Opinion
United States v. Kelly
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided April 13, 2012No. 11-30084, 11-30085, 11-30086, 11-30087, 11-30090PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
GWIN, District Judge:
On November 2, 2009, appellants Father Stephen Kelly, Lynne Greenwald, Father William Bichsel, Susan Crane, and Sister Anne Montgomery—in an act of symbolic protest against nuclear weapons—cut their way through two fences and into a secure area of United States Naval Base KitsapBangor, near Seattle. All are longtime peace and disarmament activists. Two are Catholic priests, and one is an eighty-year-old Catholic nun. Two others are grandmothers.
Once inside, the group spread “simulated blood” on base fences and unfurled a banner reading, “Plowshares—Trident Illegal…
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