State v. Franck

MESCHKE, Justice.

We review the sufficiency of the evidence for a criminal conviction of disobeying a preliminary injunction that restrained obstruction of an abortion clinic. We affirm.

Stella Franck was one of 41 people arrested on November 21, 1991, in Fargo at the abortion clinic. Like the others, she was charged with violating NDCC 12.1-10-05 by disobeying a judicial order that restrained obstruction of the clinic. The injunction forbade going within 100 feet of the clinic, “except that two people may quietly and peacefully picket such facility, so long as said people do not interfere with…