Posted on 01/26/2016 11:42:58 AM PST by Nachum
Last year, two journalists set up a complex and high-level sting against top Planned Parenthood executives; they took undercover video of their meetings with those executives. The videos stunned Americans with their graphic depictions of baby body parts and executives laughing and joking about sale of those baby body parts to research facilities.
Now a Harris County grand jury has indicted the real lawbreakers: the journalists.
David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt of California were charged by the grand jury with tampering with a governmental record, which could carry a sentence of 20 years in prison, as well as a misdemeanor charge of purchasing or selling baby body parts. “As I stated at the outset of this investigation, we must go where the evidence leads us,†explained Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson, a Republican. “All the evidence uncovered in the course of this investigation was presented to the grand jury. I respect their decision on this difficult case.â€
Nobody from Planned Parenthood was indicted. Governor Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton have their own investigations against Planned Parenthood; those will continue.
The indictments against Daleiden and Merritt are ridiculous.
The tampering with a governmental record charge springs from Daleiden reportedly using a fake California ID to gain access to Planned Parenthood. “We know that they used fake IDs that had their real photographs but fake names and fake addresses purported to be issued by the State of California,†said the lawyer for Planned Parenthood.
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Without the video what proof is there that driver’s licenses were faked? Just one person’s word against another’s. Although I suppose Daleiden admitted to having done it, when he said this is the practice of undercover journalists.
Funny, but we were told that Obama posting a fake BC online wasn’t a crime because it was never submitted for a legal purpose. When HI deputy AG Jill Nagamine was confronted by Zullo to see if a fake document was used to deceive the public she tried to say it doesn’t matter if the document is fake.
It’s just the corruptocracy at work. One law for my friends and a different law for my enemies. That pretty much sums up Obama and all his supporting minions.
That’s what Planned Parenthood, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have been working to have happen, and it might if the situation didn’t have so much attention.
They want it to be both a political scheme for the national optics AND a judicial scheme to punish pro-lifers.
The first works better without the actual justice system involved, and the second works better without a lot of publicity (that may be why from what I see personally the story is off my Google News and Twitter trending feeds this morning.)
I think they’re going to find themselves to be like Haman from the book of Esther, hung on their own gallows.
So, it stands to reason that underage teens who falsify ID to obtain alcohol or enter casinos could also be subject to up to 20 years in prison, as well. Riiight!
If I were either of these two, the only way I would be taken into custody would be in a body bag.
A person can attempt to buy something that is not for sale. For example, a person might see a house that they think is just perfect for them, though it is not for sale. He can knock on the owners' door and ask if they would consider selling it.
I hope that discovery during the trial will bring out atrocities perpetrated by Planned Parenthood.
Tom Delay Deja vu.
Next they’re going to arrest our FBI when they catch terrorists wanting to blow up buildings, because the undercover FBI agents offered to help.
I suppose they’d say that LE can do stings but journalists can’t. Then when the heck is LE actually going to do their jobs? LE catches illegals using fake ID’s and does nothing about it.
“”Tampering with a governmental record” (ie: faking a drivers license) is punishable by a sentence of 20 years in prison.”
It is fairly common practice for police to use fake IDs when working undercover. What’s the difference?
The culture rot the liberals and progressives have brought to this country, for decades, continues.
I have no doubt this is all staged to try to turn around public opinion about Planned Parenthood. Demonize the messengers who exposed them. The whole leftist complex is going in to overdrive trying to cover up for their evil deeds.
I can only hope and pray Americans are fed up with these people as much as I am and eventually justice is served for their evil doings.
CGato
No, Perry was indicted in Travis County, where Austin is and probably the most liberal county in the state. This grand jury was in Harris County, which is where Houston is.
Harris County is more conservative than Travis County, but the grand juries have been screwy for a while.
I do not live there. I was however aware of the case long before the propagandist every got hold of it.
You are aware that the propagandist admitted leaving out much evidence against the murderer?
There will not be a civil suit. It is well-established that prosecutors and grand jurors both enjoy absolute immunity from 1983 suits.
I disagree. Easy win if done with intent to violate civil rights and not enforce laws. There is no law here to enforce.
Intent is irrelevant to absolute immunity. That is what distinguishes qualified immunity (such as what a cop enjoys) from from absolute immunity (such as what a prosecutor, grand juror, or judge enjoys). Qualified immunity is subject to exceptions for bad faith or malice. Absolute immunity is not.
The law grants prosecutors absolute immunity from civil liability for instituting a prosecution, presenting their case to a grand jury or court, or anything else “intimately associated with the judicial phase of the criminal process.”
Presenting a bill of indictment to a grand jury is plainly within the scope of a prosecutor’s absolute immunity. Thus, if all the prosecutor is being sued for is instituting a prosecution, which is all that it appears the prosecutor did here, then it makes no difference whether why she did so, even if it was with the specific, malicious intent to violate civil rights.
You may disagree with this doctrine (and many people do), but it is the law in Texas and in most other states, and it has been held by the US Supreme Court to be the law applicable in 1983 suits since Imbler v. Pachtman in 1976.
Tell all that to those Mississippi officials in prison.
We know that they used fake IDs that had their real photographs but fake names and fake addresses purported to be issued by the State of California, said the lawyer for Planned Parenthood.
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PROVE IT!
California might have a gripe, just because they faked a California license.
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Don’t assume the prosecution has any evidence...
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