briana waters
briana waters released from prison
Submitted by frymaster on Mon, 10/18/2010 - 15:02from KIRO news washington:
A woman convicted of helping with a 2001 Seattle "ecoterror" attack has returned home.
34-year-old Briana Waters was found guilty of helping in the attack that destroyed a University of Washington research center, but an appeals court overturned the conviction.
Waters was released from prison on Saturday.
She received a six-year sentence after being convicted of serving as the lookout in the attack, but the appeals court concluded the judge made mistakes that cast doubt on the fairness of her trial.
Waters had been connected to a cell of radical environmentalists based in Olympia and in Oregon. They carried out attacks throughout the west from 1996 to 2001, causing more than $80 million in damage.
The North American Animal Liberation group says the woman has been reunited with her daughter.
