Jury to be Charged in Trial of Irish American Peace
Activists

The jury in the trial of four Irish American peace
activists will be charged Friday in Binghamton, New
York. Danny Burns, Clare Grady, Teresa Grady & Peter
DeMott have been charged with four felony counts
arising out of a nonviolent occupation of a military
recruitment centre in there hometown Ithaca, New York,
on St. Patricks Day 2003 days prior to the U.S. attack
on Iraq. Known as the "St. Patrick's Day 4" the
defendants, members of the pacifist Catholic Worker
movement, were tried last year on a criminal damage
charge at a district court level. The earlier trial
concluded in a hung jury as nine jurors wish to acquit
them of criminal damage charges.

The peace activists were visited by the FBI prior to
traveling to Ireland to attend the March trial of
Irish Catholic Workers charged with damaging a U.S.
war plane at Shannon. On return from Ireland, the four
defendants were charged with four felony counts
carrying maximum sentences of 6 years.

While on the stand, De Mott and Teresa Grady were
questioned by the judge about their presence in
Ireland supporting the Pit Stop Ploughshares at their
March trial. Grady and De Mott were charged by the
judge with contempt for refusal to name
co-conspirators and for mentioning their previous
trial. The present trial has become a focus of
growing anti-war opposition in the U.S. Congressman,
military veterans and peace activists have gathered
outside the Binghamton court in numbers in support of
the defendants throughout the week.

More information
www.stpatricksfour.org