Original sentence: Freed from prison in December of 1918, Ruthenberg dove in with both feet to the burgeoning left wing movement rocking the Socialist Party.In October of 1920, Ruthenberg was tried together with his associate Isaac Ferguson in New York for alleged violation of the state's Criminal Anarchism law, said to have been breached by the Left Wing Section when it published Fraina's Left Wing Manifesto the previous year.Ruthenberg joined the Socialist Party of America (SPA) in January of 1909, and attended an English language branch of Local Cuyahoga County.Ruthenberg married Rosaline "Rose" Nickel, also of German descent, in June of 1904.The Criminal Anarchism convictions of Ruthenberg and Ferguson were ultimately overturned by the New York Supreme Court In July of 1922, just in time for another round of prosecutions, this time related to ill-fate August 1922 Unity Convention of the CPA held at Bridgman, Michigan.The trio were tried together in July of 1917 and sentenced to 1 year in the Ohio State Penitentiary, a decision upheld by the US Supreme Court on January 15, 1918
Edited sentence: Freed from prison in December 1918, Ruthenberg dove in with both feet to the burgeoning left wing movement rocking the Socialist Party.In October 1920, Ruthenberg was tried together with his associate Isaac Ferguson in New York for alleged violation of the state's Criminal Anarchism law, said to have been breached by the Left Wing Section when it published Fraina's Left Wing Manifesto the previous year.Ruthenberg joined the Socialist Party of America (SPA) in January 1909, and attended an English language branch of Local Cuyahoga County.Ruthenberg married Rosaline "Rose" Nickel, also of German descent, in June 1904.The Criminal Anarchism convictions of Ruthenberg and Ferguson were ultimately overturned by the New York Supreme Court In July 1922, just in time for another round of prosecutions, this time related to ill-fate August 1922 Unity Convention of the CPA held at Bridgman, Michigan.The trio were tried together in July 1917 and sentenced to 1 year in the Ohio State Penitentiary, a decision upheld by the US Supreme Court on January 15, 1918