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Rod Coronado Sentenced to 8 Months Today!
Rod recieved an eight month sentence and was taken into custody at about noon today. The judge felt that it was very important to preserve fear of/respect for the law, otherwise anarchy may prevail.
Rod recieved an eight month sentence and was taken into custody at about noon today.
Rod recieved an eight month sentence and was taken into custody at about noon today. The judge felt that it was very important to preserve fear of/respect for the law, otherwise anarchy may prevail.
He also received 3 years probation and is not to post anything; print, internet, interview..., with any animal rights or environmental organization that is associated with violence, including but not limited to EF!, ALF & ELF. The government was very aggresive in their assertion that dismantling the lion trap and spreading feline urine were violent acts. The judge concurred.
Matt received 3 year probation for the same conviction. He is to remain sober and also not associate with any undesirables.
As far as I know this is all pretty much what was expected though those closer to it all may know different?
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http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/hourlyupdate/141086.php
Animal activist Rodney Coronado was sentenced to eight months in prison and three years supervised probation this morning for his role in the disruption of a 2004 mountain lion hunt in Sabino Canyon.
Coronado, a Tucsonan, was convicted in December of conspiracy to impede or injure an officer of the United States, a felony, and misdemeanor counts of interfering with a forest officer and depredation of government property. He was also ordered to pay $100 restitution.
Rod recieved an eight month sentence and was taken into custody at about noon today. The judge felt that it was very important to preserve fear of/respect for the law, otherwise anarchy may prevail.
He also received 3 years probation and is not to post anything; print, internet, interview..., with any animal rights or environmental organization that is associated with violence, including but not limited to EF!, ALF & ELF. The government was very aggresive in their assertion that dismantling the lion trap and spreading feline urine were violent acts. The judge concurred.
Matt received 3 year probation for the same conviction. He is to remain sober and also not associate with any undesirables.
As far as I know this is all pretty much what was expected though those closer to it all may know different?
A
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http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/hourlyupdate/141086.php
Animal activist Rodney Coronado was sentenced to eight months in prison and three years supervised probation this morning for his role in the disruption of a 2004 mountain lion hunt in Sabino Canyon.
Coronado, a Tucsonan, was convicted in December of conspiracy to impede or injure an officer of the United States, a felony, and misdemeanor counts of interfering with a forest officer and depredation of government property. He was also ordered to pay $100 restitution.
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Environmentalist Rod Coronado returns to prison a decade after his radical heyday
By SUSAN ZAKIN
Tuesday, August 8, 2006 - 6:05 pm
Rod Coronado's hair is cropped so close to his skull it takes a while to notice it’s more gray than black. His face is gaunt, his cheekbones surfacing from the planes of his face like the masts of those whaling ships he sunk as a young man. While Johnny Depp entered his 40s playing a pirate onscreen, Rod Coronado is hanging up his cutlass, metaphorically speaking. You could say the onetime boy wonder of the radical environmental movement is having a midlife crisis. At the very least, he is growing up. Going back to jail can do that to a guy, even a guy who’s known as the poster boy for radical environmentalism or, depending on your point of view, ecoterrorism.
Coronado was sentenced Monday to eight months in federal prison on what many decry as trumped-up conspiracy charges, and he’s facing the prospect of serving as much as 20 years if a federal judge in California doesn’t look kindly on a motion to dismiss charges here. He weathered prison pretty well the first time, but now he’s got a 4-year-old son. This time, prison wasn’t part of the plan.
http://www.laweekly.com/news/news/the-caged-lion/14167/
By SUSAN ZAKIN
Tuesday, August 8, 2006 - 6:05 pm
Rod Coronado's hair is cropped so close to his skull it takes a while to notice it’s more gray than black. His face is gaunt, his cheekbones surfacing from the planes of his face like the masts of those whaling ships he sunk as a young man. While Johnny Depp entered his 40s playing a pirate onscreen, Rod Coronado is hanging up his cutlass, metaphorically speaking. You could say the onetime boy wonder of the radical environmental movement is having a midlife crisis. At the very least, he is growing up. Going back to jail can do that to a guy, even a guy who’s known as the poster boy for radical environmentalism or, depending on your point of view, ecoterrorism.
Coronado was sentenced Monday to eight months in federal prison on what many decry as trumped-up conspiracy charges, and he’s facing the prospect of serving as much as 20 years if a federal judge in California doesn’t look kindly on a motion to dismiss charges here. He weathered prison pretty well the first time, but now he’s got a 4-year-old son. This time, prison wasn’t part of the plan.
http://www.laweekly.com/news/news/the-caged-lion/14167/
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