Biography
Darius Fullmer is an American animal rights activist who was also indicted and convicted as part of the SHAC 7 prosecutions. Fullmer was charged with conspiracy and related offenses for his involvement with SHAC USA, which federal prosecutors said used websites and other tools to coordinate campaigns that disrupted the operations of Huntingdon Life Sciences and its affiliates. He was among the co-defendants convicted in March 2006 and later sentenced to a multi-year federal prison term along with his fellow activists.
March2006 verdict and pre-sentencing status
Page7 names Darius Fullmer among the six individual SHAC defendants convicted on March2,2006. It explains that the original group also included JohnMcGee, whose case was dropped, and SHACUSA as an organizational defendant. The article says the six were under house arrest awaiting sentencing at publication. House arrest is not converted to prison time. The expected June sentencing and possible sentence ranges were future projections, not the actual later sentencing or jail-admission dates. The May26,2004 date is described as indictment, not individually proved physical arrest or intake.
The Warrior Wind, issue2, mid-April2006, an advocacy newsletter; source claims and completed custody events are distinguished.
The prosecution’s May 22, 2006 post-trial memorandum dates the superseding SHAC indictment to September 16, 2004 and the jury verdict to March 2, 2006. It records an initial trial opening on June 6, 2005, followed by a defense-requested mistrial after counsel Isabel McGinty became ill, and a new trial beginning February 6, 2006. The brief was signed by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Charles B. McKenna and Ricardo Solano Jr. Its arguments that the evidence was sufficient and that the trial was fair are the prosecution’s position, not a judicial ruling on the defendants’ post-trial motions.
On October 14, 2009, the Third Circuit affirmed the SHAC convictions and sentences, remanding only to establish a restitution payment schedule.
