State v. Hamilton

This appeal challenges the Trial Court’s (Goode, J.) imposition of a sentence, after a jury trial de novo, which was greater than the sentence imposed by the district court in the original proceeding. We remand for resentencing consistent with this opinion.

The defendant Robert Belanger was president of Local 202 of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO). Defendant Marcia Hamilton was president of PATCO Local 234. During August through December of 1981, there was a “job action” by that now-defunct union which included daily picketing outside the Federal Aviation…