Frank McVey

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Charge:	"Sedition (includes mockery of authority/king/monarchy, etc)"
Sentence:	2-4 yrs
Years Imprisoned:	2.17
Year Crime:	1918
Year Convicted:	1918
Year Cleared:	2006
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Montana
County or Region of Crime:	Gallatin
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Result:	Pardoned Posthumously
Summary of Case:	"Frank McVey was wrongly convicted of sedition based on Montana's Sedition Act of 1918. One of 78 people convicted of violating the Sedition Act pardoned by Montana Governor Barry Schweitzer on May 3, 2006."
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Innocence Proved By:	"Pardoned by Montana Governor Barry Schweitzer on May 3, 2006."
Defendant Aided By:	"The Montana Sedition Project at the University of Montana School of Journalism was formed to work toward the pardoning of the defendants, based on the research in the book "Darkest Before Dawn: Sedition and Free Speech in the American West," by Clemens P Work (University of New Mexico Press 2005)"
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Age When Imprisoned:	36
Age When Released:	38
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	Montana Sedition Project Database
Information Location 1:	http://www.seditionproject.net/
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Book About Case:	""Darkest Before Dawn: Sedition and Free Speech in the American West," by Clemens P Work (University of New Mexico Press 2005)"
Book Information:	http://www.unmpress.com/Book.php?id=10893924476241
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Frank McVey

Charge:

"Sedition (includes mockery of authority/king/monarchy, etc)"

Sentence:

2-4 yrs

Years Imprisoned:

2.17

Year Crime:

1918

Year Convicted:

1918

Year Cleared:

2006

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Montana

County or Region of Crime:

Gallatin

City of Crime:

Result:

Pardoned Posthumously

Summary of Case:

"Frank McVey was wrongly convicted of sedition based on Montana's Sedition Act of 1918. One of 78 people convicted of violating the Sedition Act pardoned by Montana Governor Barry Schweitzer on May 3, 2006."

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

"Pardoned by Montana Governor Barry Schweitzer on May 3, 2006."

Defendant Aided By:

"The Montana Sedition Project at the University of Montana School of Journalism was formed to work toward the pardoning of the defendants, based on the research in the book "Darkest Before Dawn: Sedition and Free Speech in the American West," by Clemens P Work (University of New Mexico Press 2005)"

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

36

Age When Released:

38

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

Montana Sedition Project Database

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http://www.seditionproject.net/

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Book About Case:

""Darkest Before Dawn: Sedition and Free Speech in the American West," by Clemens P Work (University of New Mexico Press 2005)"

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http://www.unmpress.com/Book.php?id=10893924476241

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