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Kathleen Ridolfi

AKA: Cookie Ridolfi
Released
Date of birth:1948
Gender:Female
Era:1970s
State:Pennsylvania
Time Imprisoned:
12 Days
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Anti-War Camden 28
Kathleen Ridolfi

Biography

Kathleen Mary "Cookie" Ridolfi, a South Philadelphia native, was twenty-three at the Camden 28 indictment. She attended Temple University and Philadelphia Textile College and managed the Resistance Book Store near Temple, and was also named in the Harrisburg conspiracy proceedings. FBI surveillance photographed her with Rosemary Reilly carrying bags during preparations for the raid, and later research identifies both women among the group that entered the draft-board offices on August 22, 1971. Tried as one of the seventeen and acquitted on May 20, 1973. She became an attorney and law professor, and in 2001 founded the Northern California Innocence Project at Santa Clara University.

Case

Charges: Conspiracy and destruction of Selective Service records
Arrested: Aug 22, 1971
Incarcerated: Aug 22, 1971
Released: Sep 3, 1971
Sentence: No sentence — acquitted with all seventeen trial defendants on May 20, 1973. The FBI individual custody summary records arrest on August 22, 1971, a same-day hearing before U.S. Magistrate Charles L. Rudd and remand to U.S. Marshal custody in lieu of $25,000 bail. It records physical release on September 3, 1971, after posting ten percent cash or security on a $10,000 bond set by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia on September 3. The bond-setting date is distinct from the actual release date. Source: FBI Camden/MEDBURG file NW 68262, DocId 32989529, PDF page 132.
Convicted: No