Passamaquoddy advocate wins a reprieve—in the afterlife.

By Colin W. Sargent

Never let it be said that you must be alive in order to be intriguing. In January 2020, the late Donald C. Gellers, a.k.a. Tuvia Ben Shmul Yosef, received a posthumous pardon for “the constructive possession of six marijuana cigarettes” in 1969 at his home in Eastport. The drug bust was a retaliatory silencer for Gellers having filed a land-claims lawsuit to benefit the Passamaquoddy tribe.

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