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(Thomas More Society) — On August 31, 2023, Thomas More Society attorneys filed an appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to reverse a lower court ruling denying pro-life advocate Lauren Handy’s immediate release from jail. Yesterday, September 5, 2023, they filed their motion and legal argument supporting the appeal.
Citing their conviction for a “crime of violence,” U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ordered Handy and her four co-defendants be immediately detained on August 29, 2023, after a jury in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia found them guilty of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, as well as a conspiracy against “rights” that the U.S. Supreme Court has not found in the Constitution, in the United States of America v. Lauren Handy, et al. The charges stem from their pro-life peaceful protest outside and inside a Washington, D.C., abortion facility in October 2020.
READ: Pro-life rescuer Lauren Handy seeks emergency release from jail after FACE Act conviction
In both the original motion and the appeal, Thomas More Society
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