Michigan man gets community service for shooting anti-abortion campaigner

Published May 23, 2023 5:29 PM

IONIA, Mich. (AP) — A western Michigan man who pleaded no contest to shooting an 84-year-old woman campaigning against abortion rights at his home has been sentenced to community service. Seventy-five-year-old Richard Harvey was ordered Tuesday to complete 100 hours of community service. Judge Suzanne Hoseth Kreeger also gave him a suspended jail sentence of two months and a delayed sentence of one year on probation. Harvey pleaded no contest last month to felonious assault, careless discharge of a firearm causing injury and reckless discharge of a firearm. Kreeger also must pay $347 in restitution and cannot have any contact with the woman he shot, 84-year-old Joan Jacobson.

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