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Erica Enzer

Released
Date of birth:1925
Date of death:1998
Gender:Female
Race:White
Era:1950s
State:Wyoming
Time Imprisoned:
20 Days
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Anti-War
Erica Enzer

Biography

Erica Enzer was a Chicago pacifist arrested in 1958 in the nonviolent campaign against construction of the nation's first intercontinental ballistic missile base near Cheyenne, Wyoming. Convicted of trespassing, she chose to serve out her $100 fine in jail at a dollar a day.

Contemporary 1983–1984 custody evidence

The Vandenberg follow-up identifies Erica Enzer’s January 19, 1984 twenty-day sentence for the June 1983 backcountry protest and explicitly says she was now out after serving the time at Santa Barbara County Jail. The twenty days are corroborated completed service, not just a sentence. No exact jail-admission or physical discharge day is given; sentencing is not silently reused as admission. This is separate from her 1958 and 1963–1964 cases.

The Nuclear Resister No. 23, February 12, 1984, original PDF 6 / printed 5.

The contemporary CNVA bulletin individually names this walker among those arrested December 23, 1963 and reports confinement at Albany City Jail. This adds the jail location without changing the existing custody dates.

CNVA bulletin, January 13, 1964, PDF page 2.

Cases

Charges: Trespassing — antinuclear protest at the Cheyenne ICBM missile site
Incarcerated: 1958
Sentence: $100 fine, served in jail
Convicted: Yes
Albany City Jail
Charges: Refusing police directions
Arrested: Dec 23, 1963
Sentenced: Jan 8, 1964
Incarcerated: Dec 23, 1963
Released: January 1964
Sentence: Held beyond the initial arrest. On January 8, 1964, the court imposed a $102 fine or 25 days, with pretrial custody credited. The individual release date is unresolved; group release dates are not assigned to every person.
Judge: A. N. Durden
Convicted: Yes
Institution State: Georgia
Sentenced: Jan 19, 1984
Sentence: The Vandenberg follow-up identifies Erica Enzer’s January 19, 1984 twenty-day sentence for the June 1983 backcountry protest and explicitly says she was now out after serving the time at Santa Barbara County Jail. The twenty days are corroborated completed service, not just a sentence. No exact jail-admission or physical discharge day is given; sentencing is not silently reused as admission. This is separate from her 1958 and 1963–1964 cases.