A federal judge denied pro-life campaigner Lauren Handy’s motion to be released from jail pending her sentencing hearing, saying the protest action at an abortion clinic for which she was convicted was a “crime of violence.”
Ms. Handy, who was convicted by a jury on Aug. 29 of conspiring to obstruct access to an abortion clinic in Washington, was incarcerated pending sentencing, according to the order of Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia. The judge was appointed in 1997 by President Bill Clinton.
