Posted on 02/03/2016 7:15:41 PM PST by Morgana
A California woman charged last week for her role in the production of undercover videos at a Houston Planned Parenthood clinic will be offered probation, a Harris County prosecutor said in court.
Sandra Susan Merritt, of San Jose, Calif., appeared in court Wednesday morning on charges of tampering with a governmental record, a second-degree felony which carried a possible sentence of up to 20 years in prison.
A grand jury convened to investigate whether a Houston Planned Parenthood clinic had sold the organs of aborted fetuses last week cleared the clinic and instead indicted the undercover videographers behind the allegations.
The Harris County grand jury also indicted David Daleiden, of California, on charges of tampering with a governmental record, a second-degree felony with a possible sentence of up to 20 years in prison. It charged Daleiden, the leader of the videographers, with the same misdemeanor he had alleged – the purchase or sale of human organs, presumably because he had offered to buy in an attempt to provoke Planned Parenthood employees into saying they would sell.
On Wednesday, Merritt made her bail, was processed by the Harris County Sheriff's Office and turned herself in to state District Judge Brock Thomas. Dressed in her regular clothes, she appeared with a team of defense attorneys. She was also accompanied to and from the court by a handful of sheriff's deputies because of the intense media scrutiny the case has generated, according to one official.
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Looks like they want to settle “out of court” for a plea deal, because “DISCOVERY IS A B***TCH”
THE WHOLE FRICKEN LEFT COAST IS SICK!!!
the person who made the video is going to jail- someone remind me why the guys who sold baby parts aren’t hanging by piano wire?
Hopefully the grand jury will taking a public bow so that the accolades can come raining down upon them
Tampering with a governmental record can get you 20 years???
Hitlery should be in jail for a couple of centuries for this.
There is no equal justice anymore. There is at least two systems: One for the elites versus that for the “unwashed masses”
Don’t take it!!!
Try the case. Okay the full tapes. Expose the truth.
God’s not dead!!!!
Absurd. Wouldn t that be a nice juxtaposition between the scandalous Hillary and the spirit saving pro life movement people.
Tampering with WHAT government records? I thought they just videotaped these “people”.
Does that matter?
The onl;y thing that will sort out Harris County is a bunch of dead pinkos. It is too deep for the ballot box.
Bingo. I’m thinking PP got hold of the DA and said lets go for a plea deal. We just want to scare them. The last thing the DA and PP want is to have the defense lawyer rooting around PP’s records.
This whole thing stinks to high heaven.
Appeal to Caesar. Don’t accept a plea.
Get it all out in the open. Discovery will make the abortion promoters rue the day they pulled this stunt.
If either of these two are convicted of anything in Texas, Greg Abbott must pardon them. I doubt any jury will convict them though.
We have a corrupt DA in Houston who should be investigated for prosecutorial misconduct. Apparently Austin is not the only city that is infected with this disease.
This is a game being played by the commie lib baby killers. Take this farce to court! They want you to take “probation” which is a joke in itself but you’ll also have a felony on your record. You’ve come this far. The shyster prosecutor and the baby killers don’t want this to go to court. Too messy for them. Make them bleed.
You are probably right. And that day may not be too far away.
I HOPE THEY FORCE IT TO TRIAL
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They aren't going to risk it.
From what I what I understand, they were using fake driver's licenses to gain access to the facility. That should put the fear of God into all the high schoolers carring around fake ID's.
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