Two pro-life demonstrators arrested recently on the Notre Dame campus will apparently have to stand trial.
Days before President Barack Obama spoke at Notre Dame's commencement exercises in May, Laura Rohling and Jane Brennan conducted an informational picket on campus, using signs to educate students on abortion. They were arrested and spent seven hours in jail. Tom Brechja of the Thomas More Society represented them in a recent hearing and expected it to be settled -- but... "We ran into a brick wall," he recalls. "Turned out the prosecutor was very anxious to press the charges and said things to the effect that, 'You folks intended to be arrested' -- which really isn't the case -- and 'therefore you ought to accept your punishment' and so forth." Brechja, who is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, is hopeful his alma mater will drop the cases since no harm was done and there was no intent to break any laws. "Instead of confrontation in criminal court, we really ought to have a kind of dialogue the university said it was inviting when it invited President Obama," he contends. Among others arrested during the demonstrations was former presidential candidate Alan Keyes.
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