Pro-life protester Mark Houck has won a seven-figure settlement in his legal battle with the federal government after the Biden Department of Justice arrested him at gunpoint in front of his terrified wife and children.
The 40 Days for Life Institute of Law & Justice confirms Houck has now won his lawsuit after already being acquitted of the criminal charges he was facing.
Shawn Carney, President and CEO of 40 Days for Life, said in a video post, “Mark’s family has been awarded over a million dollars for what they went through in the ridiculous raid of his home.”
As CBN News has reported, Houck was arrested in a pre-dawn FBI raid on his home. He woke up on September 23, 2022, to an incessant banging on his door. When he opened it, he saw more than 15 FBI agents crowded on his front porch and the front lawn with guns pointed at him.
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He was charged by the Department of Justice with counts of violating the FACE Act after he pushed back against a pro-abortion volunteer who had been harassing his young son outside an abortion clinic in Philadelphia.
At the time, a Thomas More Society attorney said, “The Biden Department of Justice’s pattern of arresting and prosecuting peaceful pro-life advocates is disturbing.” A jury would soon agree.
After less than an hour of deliberations by the jury, Houck was acquitted on all charges in January 2023. If the Biden Administration had won its case, Houck would have faced up to 11 years in prison and a $350,000 fine.
The Houcks sued the Department of Justice in 2023 seeking $1.1 million in damages for malicious prosecution, retaliatory prosecution, false arrest, abuse of process, and assault.
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