Posted on 06/06/2024 3:24:08 PM PDT by Morgana
CV NEWS FEED // After sentencing 75-year-old Paulette Harlow to two years in jail, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly quipped about the elderly pro-lifer’s husband’s concern that she might die in prison. Kollar-Kotelly commented that she hopes Harlow will “make an effort to remain alive” because that is a “tenet of [Harlow’s] religion,” according to LiveAction.
On May 31, in a federal Washington, D.C. court, Kollar-Kotelly sentenced Harlow to two years in jail and 36 months of supervised release for protesting at a notorious late-term abortion clinic in Washington, D.C. with eight others.
John Harlow, Paulette’s husband, spoke in court before the sentencing about his concerns for his wife’s declining health and his fear that she might die in prison.
“In my heart, I think she’s having a hard time staying alive,” John said, according to LiveAction. “We’ve tried to be good people,” he later added. “I love my wife dearly… We’re throwing ourselves on the mercy of the court.”
In November 2023, Paulette was convicted of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act and of “conspiracy against civil rights.”
In May 2024, Paulette’s eight co-defendants were also sentenced to various lengths of time in prison followed by supervised release. On May 14, Harlow’s co-defendant Lauren Handy was sentenced to almost five years in prison.
Paulette has remained under house arrest since November 2023 due to her medical needs.
Paulette’s attorney, Allen Orenberg, also spoke in court before the sentencing about Paulette’s ongoing medical challenges.
“She cannot continue to exist without support, especially that of her husband,” Orenberg said.
According to LiveAction, Kollar-Kotelly concluded that Paulette “violated abortion-seekers’ civil rights, describing the rescue action as ‘violent,’ and characterizing [Paulette] as lacking in kindness and remorse.”
Per LiveAction:
After pronouncing sentence, Kollar-Kotelly made a cryptic statement regarding her hope that Harlow would “make an effort to remain alive” because that is a “tenet of [Harlow’s] religion.”
Yup- that is what needs to happen to these people. We’ll call it restorative justice
More on Mrs Harlow here: She’s been under house arrest for months but the absolute bitch of a judge will not count any of that as time served. Kollar-Kotelly is real servant of the devil.
Another elderly convict in the case — and the sister of Jean Marshall — is Paulette Harlow, 75, of Kingston, Massachusetts. Harlow, a Catholic, was found guilty on Nov. 16, 2023, of felony conspiracy against civil rights and violating the FACE Act.
She was sentenced to 24 months of incarceration but has remained under house arrest throughout the proceedings of the case because of her severe health issues.
Speaking to CNA from her home in a phone call in early June, she said she has multiple health issues: diabetes, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, spinal stenosis, severe arthritis in her neck, sleep apnea, bronchial asthma, fibromyalgia, neuropathy in both of her feet, migraine headaches, arthritis in her right hip, psoriasis in her left hip, and tinnitus in her left ear, which is causing short-term memory loss.
Harlow’s lawyer, Allen Orenberg, told CNA last November after her conviction that he was “optimistic” that the judge would sentence Harlow to home detention, given her health issues.
“Mrs. Harlow has some significant medical issues that need to be addressed on a regular basis. And the judge said on the record that this will allow her to see her doctors rather than having to deal with the Bureau of Prisons at this stage where the level or the quality of medical care may not be the same,” he said.
But he was wrong. On May 31, Judge Kollar-Kotelly, who sentenced each of the defendants in the case, handed down a sentence of two years of imprisonment.
Orenberg told CNA after her sentencing that Harlow would be sent to a “medical prison,” a facility that is able to offer a high level of care.
But Harlow is still at home, under house arrest, while awaiting a spot to open up in the medical prison. She told CNA that she gets no credit for time served.
She said that during her eight months of confinement, she has not been legally allowed to leave her home to attend Mass at her local parish. On several occasions, a priest has come to her home to celebrate Mass. Her husband brings her home holy Communion consistently, she said.
She told CNA that she is “concerned” about going to the prison but “not afraid because I know wherever I’m going, Jesus is going before me.”
Leaving her husband, she said, will be the hardest part. Harlow said it was an “honor to work and stand up before the unborn.”
“I’m heartbroken for all of us. I’m heartbroken for America. I really am,” she said.
https://www.ncregister.com/cna/locked-up-meet-the-elderly-and-infirm-women-now-in-prison-for-pro-life-activism
The stench from the bench is making me clench, with apologies to Michael Savage
These people will start disappearing if we get into a limited war with Russia. I am surprised this judge hasn’t been removed. Normally old people are locked up for murder, let alone preventing one.
Yup. The judge’s term in Hell is likely to last a lot longer than two years.
Someday Colleen will be judged by a Higher Judge.
May the irony eternally burn the flesh of these soulless cretinous tyrants.
I don’t think she’s even a biological female.
apparently there is ALWAYS room in jail for J6 protestors and other conservatives!
But never enough room for murderers and rapists!
Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly - what a See you next Thursday.
But in accordance with your hardness and your impenitent heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath
Romans 2:5
In my opinion, the judge shouldn’t be opining on a “tenant of the defendant’s religion”.
Yes. Evil flourishes amongst the godless
That statement may have left open a chance that the prisoner could have her conviction reversed on appeal based on the judge’s antagonism towards what she thinks is the prisoner’s religious beliefs.
The Left regards their violence as speech, while at the same time regarding your speech as violence.
We have a second amendment for judges like this. Unfortunately. It is going have to get much worse before Amrericans take back their liberties.
Indeed.
You can physically assault people and get probation, but woe to those who peacefully pray outside of an abortion clinic. All of a sudden, the overcrowded prisons have room for non-violent offenders.
Oh yay. More references to killing people. And to defend a pro life position?
Fantastic.
She’s a communist most likely.
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