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Alabama Law Requiring Trial for Minors Seeking an Abortion Struck Down by Circuit Court
On 7/1/21 at 12:02 AM EDT
A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld a lower court s ruling striking down an Alabama law that would have required minors seeking an abortion without parental permission to face a trial-like court hearing.
The three-judge panel from U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit agreed with a district court decision that found certain amendments to Alabama s Parental Consent Act represent an undue burden for a large fraction of minors seeking abortions without parental consent. The legal challenge was brought by Reproductive Health Services (RHS), the only abortion clinic currently operating in Alabama s Montgomery County.
Giovanni Loyola visited the hospital over the 10 months after his arrest last year to address restrictive blood flow and chronic pain. Complications in blood circulation ultimately resulted in the amputation of his left hand. His experience is just one of many police assaults on workers in Alabama in the recent period.
Montgomery District Attorney Daryl Bailey said today a preliminary autopsy report found that a kidnapping suspect died of a self-inflicted gunshot in an encounter with police, who fired into the vehicle he had entered outside a Montgomery hotel. Gary Moncrief, 32, died in the incident May 18 at the Microtel Inn in Montgomery. Lawyers for the family have said Moncrief was unarmed and was shot .
UPDATE: Dispute Over Officer-Involved Shooting Incident in Montgomery
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Gary Moncrief (right) – Contributed photo
Attorneys for a man who died during an incident involving Montgomery police last week are speaking out against the police department for what they say was the murder of an unarmed Black man. But Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed and District Attorney Daryl Bailey say those attorneys are ignoring the facts of the case.
Gary Moncrief died Tuesday night, May 18, outside the Microtel hotel near exit 11 off Interstate 85 in Montgomery.
Attorneys Michael Strickland and Dewayne Brown were gathered with members of Moncrief’s family outside the Alabama Supreme Court building for a news conference, where they said Moncrief was the latest Black man in this country to die at the hands of police. They say he was unarmed when a Montgomery police officer shot and killed him as he sat inside the back seat of a car.