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Kevin Sparrock

Released
Gender:Male
Era:1990s
State:New Jersey
Support
Anti-War
Kevin Sparrock

Biography

Kevin Sparrock was a Marine reservist, freelance artist and School of Visual Arts student who resisted the Persian Gulf War. Contemporary coverage reported that he faced a wartime desertion charge. Later reports gave his sentence as six months, and Jeff Paterson listed him among those released from Camp Lejeune by January 1992.

The conscientious-objector submission reproduced in the 2001 Cox Commission materials names Kevin Sparrock among twenty-six Gulf War conscientious objectors imprisoned at Camp Lejeune and reports a prosecution request for the death penalty for wartime desertion. A requested punishment is distinct from the eventual disposition; no new admission or release day is established.

Original source, PDF pages 49.

Case

Charges: Wartime desertion charge arising from Gulf War refusal
Incarcerated: 1991
Sentence: Six months
Convicted: Yes