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David Japenga

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:2000s
State:Pennsylvania
Time Imprisoned:
4 Months 8 Days
Support
Anarchism
David Japenga

Biography

Convicted of four misdemeanors and a felony for breaking windows at Citizens Bank, Irish Design Center, and Quizno's on September 24, 2009 during the G-20 summit protests in Pittsburgh. Held at the Allegheny County Jail in Pittsburgh.

He was paroled in mid-December 2010, weeks after the November 23, 2010 sentence of six to eighteen months.

In a first-person statement dated January 3, 2010, Japenga reported that he was arrested on September 24, 2009, spent 20 days in Allegheny County Jail, and left jail on October 14, 2009, for electronically monitored house arrest. This pretrial jail stay is separate from his later August 25–December 13, 2010, imprisonment. The two documented jail periods total 130 days; the intervening house arrest is not counted as imprisonment. Judge Jeffrey Manning's role in the source concerned a travel request, not an identified sentencing hearing.

Fire to the Prisons, issue 8 (2010), PDF pages 67.

Case

Allegheny County Jail
Charges: Four misdemeanors and one felony (property destruction during G-20 protests)
Arrested: Sep 24, 2009
Sentenced: Nov 23, 2010
Incarcerated: September 24, 2009
Released: October 14, 2009
Incarcerated: August 25, 2010
Released: December 13, 2010
Sentence: Six to eighteen months imposed November 23, 2010. His friends’ contemporaneous statement records bond revocation and actual remand to Allegheny County Jail upon conviction on August 25, 2010, following house arrest. Released on early parole December 13, 2010, corroborated in the subsequent report. This span measures post-conviction jail confinement, excluding earlier house arrest; the complete initial arrest episode remains unresolved. Custody-date sources: https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/publications/fire-to-the-prisons-winter-2010-2011/; https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/publications/fire-to-the-prisons-issue11-spring-2011/; https://denverabc.wordpress.com/2010/11/24/david-japenga-sentenced-to-between-6-and-18-months/
Institution State: Pennsylvania