Mahony Asks Review of Abortion Foes’ Sentences
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Roman Catholic Archbishop Roger Mahony has asked prosecutors and the courts to review what he believes are “unusually harsh” sentences imposed on abortion foes convicted of trespassing in protests outside women’s clinics.
In letters mailed earlier this week to Los Angeles Dist. Atty. Ira Reiner, City Atty. James Hahn, the presiding judge of the Superior Court, Richard Byrne, and the presiding Municipal Court judge, Jon Mayeda, Mahony asked that they gather the arrest and sentencing records of demonstrators convicted of trespassing and other misdemeanor offenses during clinic protests in the past six months.
Reiner and Hahn had the day off and were not available for comment Thursday, and there was no immediate response from the two judges.
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