Biography
James Smith is individually named among the five Williams International peace resisters arrested Good Friday April 20, 1984. All pleaded guilty that day and were jailed indefinitely unless they promised not to violate the injunction; the report still places them in Oakland County Jail at publication May 9. This establishes actual multi-week US political custody, not a suspended or scheduled sentence. No final release or completed total is inferred. The case is separate from later 1984–1986 prosecutions.
James Smith is individually named among the five Williams International peace resisters arrested Good Friday April 20, 1984. All pleaded guilty that day and were jailed indefinitely unless they promised not to violate the injunction; the report still places them in Oakland County Jail at publication May 9. This establishes actual multi-week US political custody, not a suspended or scheduled sentence. No final release or completed total is inferred. The case is separate from later 1984–1986 prosecutions.
The August 1984 follow-up explicitly names the five Good Friday Williams International contempt prisoners and reports their actual release May 10, 1984. Combined with their already documented April 20 jail admission, this establishes 20 elapsed days; concurrent trespass terms are not counted again.
