Trial Set for 2 Held at Abortion Protest
May trial dates were scheduled Monday for Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry and an associate on misdemeanor charges that they encouraged anti-abortion militants to ignore police demands to halt a blockade of a Los Angeles abortion clinic last month.
A May 3 trial date was set for Terry, 29, of New York, and another leader of the anti-abortion group, Michael McMonagle, 36, of Pennsylvania, who are charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice, conspiracy to commit any crime, trespassing and resisting arrest. If convicted at their Municipal Court trial, they could be sentenced to one year in County Jail and be fined $10,000.
The two have been released on bail.
More than 700 anti-abortion demonstrators were arrested March 25 as they tried to blockade the Family Planning Associates clinic.
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