Scores brave bitter cold to get seat for Y-12 protesters' sentencing

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Source: Knoxville News Sentinel

Photo by Michael Patrick
Supporters line up to go through security for a seat in the courtroom as three Y-12 protesters -- Sister Megan Rice, Michael Walli and Greg Boertje-Obed -- are sentenced by U.S. District Judge Amul R. Thapar at the Howard H. Baker Jr. Federal Courthouse Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014. (MICHAEL PATRICK/NEWS SENTINEL)

Scores of people braved bitterly cold temperatures Tuesday morning to get a seat for the sentencings of three Plowshares protesters who broke into the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant.

Space inside the U.S. District courtroom downtown was limited.

Sister Megan Rice, an 83-year-old Catholic nun, who’ll turn 84 in two days, and Michael R. Walli, 64, are both from Washington, D.C.; Greg Boertje-Obed, 58, is from Duluth, Minn., were convicted in May on federal charges of attempting to injure the national defense and depredation of government property.

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The veteran activists have said they hoped to draw the world’s attention to the continued manufacture of nuclear weapons at the Oak Ridge plant and the government’s plans to spend billions of dollars on a new production facility at the site.

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1. Update 1140am $53K fine

The article in the Knoxnews is a bit jumbled, but I don't think there is anything else.
Payment plan being set up.

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2. Snow delays sentencing of Y-12 protesters to February 18

The article has been updated.

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2014/jan/28/scores-brave-bitter-cold-to-get-seat-for-y-12/

Snow delays sentencing of Y-12 protesters to February

By Frank Munger
Posted January 28, 2014 at 8:58 a.m., updated January 28, 2014 at 1:42 p.m.

KNOXVILLE — With snow coming down and federal officials closing the courthouse early, Judge Amul Thapar, prosecutors and attorneys agreed Tuesday to delay the sentencing of three protesters who broke into the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant.

They determined there wasn’t enough time to complete the sentencing before the doors closed at 2:30 p.m. on the Howard H. Baker Jr. U.S. Courthouse.

The sentencing has been rescheduled to 9 a.m. on Feb. 18.

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Earlier Tuesday, the judge ordered the three to pay $52,953 in restitution, waiving interest and allowing payments to be made quarterly.

The costs include repairs to fences, spray washing and cleaning the exterior of the plant’s storehouse for bomb-making uranium and additional security expenses.

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