Biography
Suzanne Schmidt was a mother, grandmother, and worker with people with disabilities who lived in the Jonah House resistance community in Baltimore at the time of the Trident II Pruning Hooks action.
Initial bond custody and later sentence separated
Original action report, individual recognizance release report, and sentence and prison report were visually reviewed in full. The movement case chronology confirms the intervening release, full suspended sentence structure and actual January1987 discharge. A precise January day and later jail admission are not established. No namesake photograph is installed.
February 1986 verdict and intervening freedom
The Trident II Pruning Hooks report names Greg Boertje, John Heid, Roger Ludwig, Sheila Parks, Suzanne Schmidt and George Veasey as convicted February 4, 1986 before Judge Thomas Needham of possession of burglary tools, trespass and malicious destruction of property. It expressly says all six were free pending future March 31 sentencing. Thus initial April 1985 detention and later sentenced custody cannot be counted as one uninterrupted interval. Greg’s brief courtroom lockup ended when trial resumed, not a separately established multiday stay. Any existing separately verified later sentence and actual discharge must be preserved; this issue alone supplies neither a first later admission nor final discharge.
The Nuclear Resister No.38, March 10, 1986, original PDF pages 6.
