Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Megan Gillespie Rice, S.H.C.J., (born January 31, 1930) is an anti-nuclear activist and Roman Catholic Religious Sister of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus and former missionary. She is notable for breaking into the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, at the age of 82, with two fellow activists of the Transform Now Plowshares group. The break in was an antiwar protest referred to as \"the biggest security breach in the history of the nation's atomic complex.\"Rice was sentenced to almost three years in prison. In May 2015, the conviction for sabotage was vacated by a federal appeals court on the grounds that the prosecution failed to prove that Rice and the two others had the intention of causing injury to the national defense system. Part of the court ruling read \"But vague platitudes about a facility's 'crucial role in the national defense' are not enough to convict a defendant of sabotage.\" The lesser charge of injuring government property was upheld by the court but Rice was released within a week as the 2 years she had already served would be less than the re-sentencing for the upheld conviction."@en }
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- Megan_Rice abstract "Megan Gillespie Rice, S.H.C.J., (born January 31, 1930) is an anti-nuclear activist and Roman Catholic Religious Sister of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus and former missionary. She is notable for breaking into the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, at the age of 82, with two fellow activists of the Transform Now Plowshares group. The break in was an antiwar protest referred to as \"the biggest security breach in the history of the nation's atomic complex.\"Rice was sentenced to almost three years in prison. In May 2015, the conviction for sabotage was vacated by a federal appeals court on the grounds that the prosecution failed to prove that Rice and the two others had the intention of causing injury to the national defense system. Part of the court ruling read \"But vague platitudes about a facility's 'crucial role in the national defense' are not enough to convict a defendant of sabotage.\" The lesser charge of injuring government property was upheld by the court but Rice was released within a week as the 2 years she had already served would be less than the re-sentencing for the upheld conviction.".