Biography
Michael Carter was an environmental activist convicted for billboard monkeywrenching in Montana. In a signed August 1994 letter, he reported completing a three-month jail stay at the Flathead County Detention Center. He said he was booked on April 4 after an April 1 sentence that also included 19 years of probation, 200 hours of community service and about $36,000 restitution. He described cutting down large Exxon billboards; the precise statutory felony counts are not supplied in this letter.
Michael Carter was an environmental activist convicted for billboard monkeywrenching in Montana. In a signed August 1994 letter, he reported completing a three-month jail stay at the Flathead County Detention Center. He said he was booked on April 4 after an April 1 sentence that also included 19 years of probation, 200 hours of community service and about $36,000 restitution. He described cutting down large Exxon billboards; the precise statutory felony counts are not supplied in this letter. Ninety days in jail, 19 years of probation, 200 hours community service and about $36,000 restitution. Carter personally reports that the three-month jail stay was completed. The letter says release was two days before it was written but provides no letter date, so no release day is calculated.
Earth First! Journal, August 1, 1994, PDF pages 4 (printed pages 3).