3 Plead No Contest in Blockade of Clinic
The founder of the militant anti-abortion group Operation Rescue and two of his deputies pleaded no contest Monday to misdemeanor charges stemming from a massive illegal blockade of a woman’s clinic near downtown Los Angeles in 1989.
Randall Terry, 31, of Binghamton, N.Y., who founded the group, and Michael McMonagle, 37, of Philadelphia, pleaded no contest to a single misdemeanor count of blocking access to the clinic.
Terry and McMonagle were sentenced by Municipal Judge Richard Paez to two years’ informal probation, fined $700 each and ordered to abide by a federal court order banning such illegal blockades. Jeffrey White, 32, of Santa Cruz, pleaded no contest to a single misdemeanor charge of trespassing and was sentenced to 120 days in County Jail.
The charges stemmed from a massive Easter week demonstration March 25, 1989, outside the Family Planning Associates Clinic.
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