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James Sanchez was identified as an Indian worker tried on riot charges arising from the Phoenix FERA relief-workers strike. The Daily Worker of February 7, 1935, pages 1-2, reports that he was released after a hung jury. The article places the defendants' arrests and beatings in a police attack on the September 6, 1934 strike demonstration. A hung jury is not an acquittal; no individual release date, sentence or actual custody duration is established. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1935/v12-n033-Nat-feb-07-1935-DW-LOC.pdf
Contemporary original newspaper source; individual page evidence retained in review audit 262. Exact individual custody dates and duration are not inferred from relative dates or collective claims.
The Daily Worker of October 23, 1934, page 3, names twenty-eight defendants in the Phoenix FERA relief-workers strike prosecution. It reports their demand for separate jury trials, a delayed arraignment because Judge H. C. Speakman was absent, and an objection by Judge G. A. Rodgers to differing bail amounts on the same riot charge. Thomas J. Croaff is named as defense counsel. The arrests followed the September 6 demonstration attacked by police and deputies under Governor Moeur. This is a pretrial report, not an additional arrest, imposed sentence or continuous custody measurement. Allegations of political targeting and official violence are attributed to the newspaper.