Texas hair salon owner gets seven days in JAIL for opening her business despite stay-at-home orders and rejects the judge's request for an apology because 'feeding my kids is more important than the law
Daily Mail
May 6, 2020
Texas salon owner Shelley Luther was sentenced to seven days in jail on Tuesday for refusing to shut down her business in accordance with stay-at-home orders.
Luther reopened her Dallas business Salon a La Mode on April 24 and repeatedly ignored court orders to close up shop.
On Tuesday Dallas County Judge Eric Moyé found Luther in criminal and civil contempt of court and ordered her to pay $7,000 to the court.
He offered to commute her sentence if she apologized for 'being seflish', but Luther refused to admit she did anything wrong saying, 'I have to disagree with you, sir, when you say that I am selfish because feeding my kids is not selfish.'
EDITOR'S NOTE: How is she going to feed her kids while she is in jail?
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Dallas salon owner Shelley Luther WALKS FREE from prison after Texas Supreme Court overrides 'out of touch' judge who jailed her for opening her business to 'feed her kids' during lockdown
Daily Mail
May 7. 2020
Shelley Luther, the owner of Salon a la Mode in Dallas who repeatedly defied Texas's stay-at-home order, walked out of jail Thursday after the state Supreme Court intervened and ordered her release.
This comes after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott amended his executive order Thursday morning, removing the possibility for citizens to be imprisoned for violating stay-at-home orders. The governor and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton had both slammed the judge's decision to imprison her and called for the salon owner's release.
Luther was sentenced to seven days in jail on Tuesday for refusing to shut down her business in accordance with stay-at-home orders.
Luther reopened her Dallas business Salon a La Mode on April 24 and repeatedly ignored court orders to close up shop.
On Tuesday, Dallas County Judge Eric Moyé found Luther in criminal and civil contempt of court and ordered her to pay $7,000 to the court.
EDITOR'S NOTE: If people can violate the locksown orders with impunity, then those orders are absolutely meaningless.
And it should be noted that she was not jailed for opening her shop, but for repeatedly defying the court's order to shut it down.
1 comment:
She was jailed for contempt of court. This wouldn't have happened in Galveston County where the County Judge said the enforcement of the orders were unconstitutional from the get go.
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