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Rosemary Reilly

Released
Date of birth:03. 06. 1949
Age:77
Era:1970s
State:New York
Time Imprisoned:
12 Days
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Rosemary Reilly

Biography

Age 22 at indictment; from Brightwaters, Long Island, graduate of the Academy of Saint Joseph who attended Newton College of the Sacred Heart and Marymount-Manhattan. Managed the Resistance Book Distributors office in New York and worked with the NY Defense Committee. Acquitted in 1973.

The FBI descriptive processing report for the August 22, 1971 Camden arrests records Rosemary Reilly’s birth date as 1949-06-03 and birthplace as Long Island, New York. This replaces an approximate birth year with the report’s explicit day. The report is cited for identification information, without adopting its allegations of criminal conduct.

FBI Camden/MEDBURG file NW 68262, DocId 32989529, PDF page 131.

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 126.
Convicted: No