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==Defendants with ages at time of trial== | ==Defendants with ages at time of trial== | ||
* [[Robert E. Miles]], 63, a white | * [[Robert E. Miles]], 63, a white fascist leader from Cohoctah, Mich. | ||
* [[Richard G. Butler]], of Hayden Lake, Idaho | * [[Richard G. Butler]], of Hayden Lake, Idaho | ||
* [[Louis Ray Beam Jr.]], 41, of Houston | * [[Louis Ray Beam Jr.]], 41, of Houston | ||
Revision as of 08:45, 15 February 2024
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