Jean Marshall

Jean Marshall, 74, was one of ten defendants who participated in a coordinated blockade of the Washington Surgi-Clinic, a reproductive health clinic in Washington, D.C., on October 22, 2020. Along with co-defendants Lauren Handy, Jonathan Darnel, Herb Geraghty, Heather Idoni, Joan Bell, John Hinshaw, William Goodman, Paulette Harlow, and Jay Smith, Marshall traveled to Washington to take part in what the group's leaders — Handy and Darnel — had organized as a "historic" pro-life rescue, livestreamed on Facebook. The defendants used force and physical obstruction to blockade two clinic entrances using their bodies, furniture, chains, and ropes, preventing staff and patients from accessing the facility. A clinic nurse was injured during the group's forced entry; one patient had to climb through a receptionist window, and another was left lying in the hallway outside in physical distress. Marshall was convicted at trial in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia of conspiracy against rights (18 U.S.C. § 241) and violation of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE Act, 18 U.S.C. § 248). Her conviction came in September 2023 in the second of three separate trials in the case.