Fort Smith sedition trial

Fort Smith Sedition Trial was held in Fort Smith, Arkansas where 14 defendants were charged with plotting to overthrow the federal government and establish an all-White nation in the Pacific Northwest.

On April 8, 1988 all were acquitted.

Defendants with ages at time of trial

• Robert E. Miles, 63, a white fascist leader from Cohoctah, Mich.
• Richard G. Butler, of Hayden Lake, Idaho
• Louis Ray Beam Jr., 41, of Houston
• Richard Joseph Scutari, 40, of New York, already serving 60 years for racketeering.
• Bruce Carroll Pierce, 32, of Metalline Falls, Wash., serving 100 years for racketeering and 150 years for violating the civil rights of Denver radio personality Alan Berg by killing him.
• Andrew Virgil Barnhill, 31, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., serving 40 years for racketeering.
• Ardie McBrearty, 60, of Gentry, Ark., serving 40 years for racketeering.
• David Eden Lane, 48, of Denver, serving 40 years for racketeering and 150 years for Berg's death.
• Richard Wayne Snell, 57, of Muse, Okla., sentenced to die for the murder of a pawn shop operator in 1983 and life in prison without parole for the 1984 slaying of an Arkansas state trooper.
• Lambert Miller, 47, of Springfield, Mo.
• David Michael McGuire, 25, of Greenville, Ill.
• Ivan Ray Wade, 35, of Smithville, Ark.
• William H. Wade, 68, of Smithville, father of Ivan Ray Wade.
• Robert Neil Smalley, 32, of Fort Smith

Government witnesses

• James Ellison
• Glenn Miller

See also

• The Great Sedition Trial
• List of sedition trials in America

External link

• Defendants All Acquitted In Sedition Trial