Union City pastor, anti-abortion leader released from jail

Contra Costa Times ^ | 4/8/9 | John Simerman

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OAKLAND — After 18 days in jail for violating a city law designed to protect women entering abortion clinics, a Berkeley church elder went free Tuesday with a wider, louder network of anti-abortion supporters than before he went to trial.

The sidewalk near Jack London Square that Walter Hoye patrolled weekly — accompanied by two elderly church women — drew a crowd of a few dozen protesters Tuesday morning for another in a series of vigils aimed at painting the law as an attack on free speech. Now, as Hoye pushes to reverse a judge's order to stay away from the clinic, his backers said the city's year-old "bubble law" — which bans approaching within 8 feet of a potential client trying to enter a clinic — has backfired.

"They would have been in a better position if they would have left him alone. They picked on one man on one street, one day a week trying to reach one woman at a time with one sign for one hour," said Dion Evans, pastor of Alameda's Chosen Vessels Christian Church. "Now a mobilization has come together because they've created an unjust law. People like myself who have been cheerleading are not on the sidelines anymore. We're now in the game."

...A jury convicted Hoye, 52,..., on two misdemeanor counts of violating the new law in May. Alameda County Superior Court Judge Stuart Hing sentenced him in February to three years probation, ordered him to stay at least 100 yards from the clinic during that time, and gave him the option of volunteer work or the jail's work-release program instead of jail time.

But Hoye balked at the probation terms and asked the judge to give him "straight time." Instead, Hing handed him a 30-day jail sentence and the probation.

[SmithL]

From left, Rosalyn Tademy, Elga Kendall, Mike Bulea, Christiana Downer, and Joycelyn Golden protest outside Family Planning Specialists Medical Group in support of Rev. Walter Hoye, who was convicted and jailed under a recently passed Oakland city ordinance aimed at protecting women going in for abortions, in Oakland, Calif. on Tuesday, April 7, 2009.

[CounterCounterCulture]

Bump for Rev. Hoye.

[dhm914]

Oaklands jail hold a pro-life preacher, Meanwhile there was no room for the vermin multicount criminal , parole violating rapist scum that murdered four oakland cops.

seems to me the lack of room in the prison, made becuase they jail a pro-life preacher, has resulted in the murder of the same types of cops, that would have arrested the preacher. classic irony, the libs just dont get it, you jail good men, release bad men, and you end up with dead cops.