Gina Lynn

Released

Date of birth:1972

Gender:Female

Era:1990s

State:California

Time Imprisoned:

25 Days

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Biography

Gina Lynn organized with the Animal Rights Direct Action Coalition and volunteered for No Compromise. Her resistance to federal grand juries led to separate jail stays in California and Missouri in 1999 and at SeaTac in 2004.

Birth-year sources

Los Angeles Times, January 29, 1996 — identifies Gina Lynn as 23.
Los Angeles Times, September 14, 1996 — identifies her as 24; together the reports establish 1972 as her birth year.

Cases

Charges: Contempt warrant for declining a federal grand-jury appearance

Arrested: Sep 10, 1999

Incarcerated: Sep 10, 1999

Released: Sep 13, 1999

Sentence: Held in an Oakland jail over the weekend, September 10–13, 1999; released on a promise to attend proceedings in Missouri.

Charges: Contempt for refusing to cooperate with a federal grand jury

Incarcerated: Oct 5, 1999

Sentence: Taken into custody October 5, 1999, in Missouri; her account was published while she was held at St. Louis County Jail in Clayton. Release date unverified.

SeaTac Federal Detention Center

Charges: Civil contempt for refusing federal grand-jury testimony

Incarcerated: Aug 26, 2004

Released: Sep 17, 2004

Sentence: Coercive confinement; released when confinement would not compel testimony.

Institution State: Washington

Gina Lynn

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