Elizabeth Just

Released
Date of birth:1941
Gender:Female
Race:White
Era:1960s
State:New York
Time Imprisoned:
0 months
Support
Anti-War
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Biography

Elizabeth Just was a 20-year-old New York University student sentenced to 30 days in the Women's House of Detention for defying New York's compulsory civil-defense drill on April 28, 1961 in an antinuclear protest.

Case

Charges: Refusing to take shelter
Arrested: Apr 28, 1961
Incarcerated: May 1961
Released: May 1961
Sentence: Thirty days; sentence suspended.
Prosecutor: Ira Beal, Assistant District Attorney
Judge: Anthony E. Maglio
Convicted: Yes
Plead: Initially guilty; permitted to change plea to not guilty in May 1961

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