Biography
Dan Lawrence was individually named among the General Dynamics/Norwich nonviolent blockaders who had served two weeks in jail before being brought to court January 25, 1985, when charges were dismissed. The same issue’s Recently Released list confirms actual release in 1985. Fourteen actual documented days are retained, but dismissal is not silently equated with an exact physical-release day and no first admission is back-calculated. This case is specifically the Norwich nuclear-weapons-related blockade, not an unrelated namesake’s case.
Contemporary source and limits
Dan Lawrence was individually named among the General Dynamics/Norwich nonviolent blockaders who had served two weeks in jail before being brought to court January 25, 1985, when charges were dismissed. The same issue’s Recently Released list confirms actual release in 1985. Fourteen actual documented days are retained, but dismissal is not silently equated with an exact physical-release day and no first admission is back-calculated. This case is specifically the Norwich nuclear-weapons-related blockade, not an unrelated namesake’s case.
Only individually documented actual custody is preserved. Nominal sentences, civil-appeal forecasts and case-disposition dates do not establish actual time served or release. No birth/death date, race, gender, unsupported name expansion or present custody status is inferred.
Earlier 1984–1985 custody chronology
The earlier January 23 issue places this same nine-person Norwich blockade on January 11, 1985, the day before the January 12 USS Alaska launch protest. It individually lists all nine as then held in jail pending trial. This identifies the arrest/action date for the already recorded fourteen-day Norwich case; it does not create another January episode or turn the later January 25 dismissal into an independently printed physical-release day. No exact first booking timestamp is inferred merely from the action date.
The original correction expressly says Claire Schaeffer-Duffy and Dan Lawrence actually spent seven days in jail for the September 24, 1984 Draper Lab trespass charge, superseding a previous three-people/three-day report. Seven is actual service, not an imposed term. Exact admission and discharge are not printed; September 24 dates the underlying action, not a guessed later entry. This stay is separate from the January 1985 Norwich case.
The Nuclear Resister No. 28, January 23, 1985, PDF pages [4, 9].
Dan Lawrence is individually named with the Schaeffer-Duffys in the August 6, 1984 GTE arrest and November 19 sentencing. Fifteen days are reported served; publication timing is ambiguous, so only release YEAR 1984 is stored and no precise intake or discharge is calculated.
The GTE account individually identifies this defendant in the April 5, 1985 arrest. All eight refused a promise to remain off GTE property and were held on $1,000 bond until April 11 conviction and time-served sentencing, with seven credited days. This is actual multi-day imprisonment distinct from the August 1985 GTE action. Seven credited days are not equated with six elapsed calendar days; physical release on April 11 is not explicitly reported and remains blank. The source’s Claire/Daniel Lawrence spellings are bridged to the existing distinctive GTE community identities; Daniel Either remains separately held for spelling verification.
