It sounds like the setup to a joke: an octogenarian Catholic nun and two Army vets break in to a government nuclear facility. But it was no joke for Sister Megan Rice and peace activists Michael Walli and Greg Boertje-Obed, who were convicted in 2013 for sabotage at the same Tennessee nuclear complex that once housed the Manhattan Project.
To a pro bono coordinator at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, the case sounded too good to pass up. In the spring of 2014, a group of senior associates at the firm agreed to spearhead an appeal alongside Loyola University law professor William Quigley, who had defended the protesters at trial. On Friday, the lawyers succeeded in reversing the convictions of all three defendants under the Sabotage Act, likely staving off any additional prison time.
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