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Mike Roselle

Released
Date of birth:1954
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1980s
State:South Dakota
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Mike Roselle

Biography

Mike Roselle participated in the 1987 Mount Rushmore protest against acid rain and subsequently served time in South Dakota custody.

Initial release and later sentence custody

The February 2, 1988 Earth First! original, printed page 6, identifies Roselle and January 25 sentencing. The March 20 original, printed page 3, confirms continued custody but only forecasts June 1 release. His first-person memoir, chapter 5, supplies the separate initial same-evening bail release and describes probation refusal, but its December court timing, probation duration and April 15 discharge claim remain inconsistent with the contemporary chronology. Exact later entry/discharge remain unresolved. Existing identified portrait retained.

Cases

Charges: Mount Rushmore protest prosecution — individual statutory counts unverified
Arrested: Oct 22, 1987
Sentenced: Jan 25, 1988
Incarcerated: 1988
Released: 1988
Sentence: Contemporary Earth First! February 2, 1988 printed page 6 records January 25 sentencing to thirty days and two years' federal probation for the October 22, 1987 protest. Actual sentence-era custody is established in 1988, but January 1 admission is a YEAR placeholder, not the first entry day. The March 20 issue confirms continued custody and forecasts June 1; that forecast is not an actual discharge. Roselle's later memoir describes additional confinement after refusing probation, but places initial court proceedings in December 1987, describes three years' probation and claims April 15 midnight release. These discrepancies leave the actual discharge at YEAR precision. The legacy 71-day total is unsupported and removed. Initial 1987 bail release is separate.
Charges: Mount Rushmore acid-rain protest: initial arrest and bail release
Arrested: Oct 22, 1987
Incarcerated: Oct 22, 1987
Released: Oct 22, 1987
Charges: Nevada Test Site anti-nuclear trespass — initial Beatty jail detention
Arrested: Apr 7, 1986
Incarcerated: Apr 7, 1986
Released: Apr 8, 1986
Sentence: Overnight in Beatty jail following the April 7, 1986 Nevada Test Site arrest; released on bail April 8.