U.S. District Court Magistrate Hector Estrada Tuesday refused to grant a military prosecutor's repeated plea to jail two Roman Catholic priests, each with a long record of nonviolent protest and subsequent imprisonment, pending their trial for trespass last fall at Fort Huachuca, in Sierra Vista, Arizona. Estrada set trials to begin in Tucson on June 4 for Jesuit Fr. Steve Kelly and June 6 for Franciscan Fr. Louis Vitale. It is expected that the cases will be consolidated, and the men will be tried together that week.
About thirty supporters attended the morning hearing, where Army Capt. and military prosecutor Mikel J. Weir asked Magistrate Estrada to consider Kelly's and Vitale's long history of protest and arrest, including serious crimes, and their reported public statements to continue such protests, and also to note Fort Huachuca's role as the U.S. Army Intelligence Center, U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command, pilotless drone operation, etc. (MORE)
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About thirty supporters attended the morning hearing, where Army Capt. and military prosecutor Mikel J. Weir asked Magistrate Estrada to consider Kelly's and Vitale's long history of protest and arrest, including serious crimes, and their reported public statements to continue such protests, and also to note Fort Huachuca's role as the U.S. Army Intelligence Center, U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command, pilotless drone operation, etc. (MORE)
http://www.jonahhouse.org/Huachuca.htm