All my criminal matters are concluded long since. Of the 100 arrested, thirty were criminally convicted, sixty were convicted of non-criminal "infractions" which are like parking tickets. The rest were acquitted or dismissed by operation of law after the state was too discouraged to prosecute. The trials were mostly of small groups but cost the state hundreds of thousands per trial. Virtually no one paid fines even if imposed. Few fines were imposed, as a result. Of those convicted of infractions, most were "punished" by unconditional discharges: no criminal record, no fine, and nothing else was available as a punishment. Almost all infraction clients were originally charged with crimes, some with felony burglaries. Of those thirty convicted of crimes virtually no one signed probation papers or observed probation standards. Thus few were sentenced to probation. About eight had post-trial incarceration, none more than forty-five days and few had that much. They practiced non-violent resistance throughout and were more of a disruption during brief pre-trial incarcerations (refusing to identify themselves or cooperate in any way, for the most part) than the jails could generally handle.
When I said that the Southern Poverty law Center was antagonistic toward my clients, I feel sure that Morris Dees is hostile to pro-lifers everywhere which marks him as no civil libertarian but I think he primarily went after a group in Portland, Oregon, largely because they published Life Advocate Magazine (before it closed it was the best pro-life magazine in the country) although he trumped up other excuses to bankrupt them and make their funding flee in terror. He also went after Operation Rescue in Houston or Dallas probably because Texas pro-lifers converted Norma McCorvey to Christianity, Catholicism, pro-life activity and even Rescue activity. A little known fact is that Norma McCorvey AND her daughter (Roe vs. Wade) and Sara Scorvino AND her daughter (Doe vs. Bolton) have all been directly involved in Operation Rescue. McCorvey and Scorvino are petitioning the Supreme Court (on the basis of their own fraudulent affidavits) to overturn Roe vs. Wade and Doe vs. Bolton. Not likely to result in relief which further proves the law is dead when litigants admit they lied to obtain a result and no change results.
The only lawsuits against the Connecticut pro-lifers were: Town of West Hartford vs. Connecticut PLAN (won by PLAN when the 2nd Circuit overturned the trial court, leaving only the question of how much West Hartford will pay the brutalized pro-lifers) and The United States and State of Connecticut vs. Stanley Scott, et al. which complained not of Rescue-type activity but against sidewalk counseling. Trust me that the result of that case by the federal and state governments against a 76-year-old man who has been on the sidewalk five days a week since about 1974 as part of an effort which has saved about 400 babies to date by persuading their mothers not to abort, that case proves that the rule of law is dead. His co-defendants were found not liable (it was a civil case) and Stanley was enjoined but he continues to walk the sidewalks near the mill which is now on the upper floor of an office building in Bridgeport and to be active at several uninvolved mills.