Posted on 01/30/2023 1:29:22 PM PST by Enterprise
A Philadelphia jury has found pro-life father Mark Houck not guilty on both counts in the case of the bogus charges the Biden administration filed against him.
Houck is facing bogus charges that he violated the federal FACE law when he was helping women outside an abortion center. An abortion business escort accosted and bullied his son and Houck stepped in to stop it – and, in doing so, the older abortion center volunteer fell down. Houck could have faced over a decade in prison if he was found guilty.
But a jury today reached a not guilty verdict – in what is a huge victory for Houck’s family and pro-life Americans who protect or help women outside abortion businesses.
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Thats the entire DoJ under Biden.
In your face, pro-abortion prosecution!
“So, where do I go to get my reputation back?”
Yaaay! Great news. Now he needs to sue DOJ and White House for malicious prosecution, which is a tort, for about $500 million, and any other charges that can help his family from the terror brought down on them by the FBI and DOJ in the horrible dawn raid on his house.
How much did he spend in legal fees?
It’s great he was acquitted, don’t get me wrong. But the process is the punishment and the Big Guy whacked him but good. It cost the Big Guy nothing and he will suffer no consequences for his malicious prosecution.
Thank goodness.
I think it was either ACLJ or ADF lawyers - they work gratis on cases like this (that's why some of us send them money).
I was really worried about how this was going to turn out, but I’m glad he was acquitted. I wouldn’t have put it past a biased jury to hang him out to dry.
The local court had already dismissed the charges, so only then did the DOJ step in.
Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri also applauded the decision.
“Remember, this is the Catholic man Biden DOJ arrested in a SWAT-style raid at his home. In front of his children. On bogus charges. All to intimidate pro-life Americans & people of faith,” he tweeted.
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This case properly reflects the gross implementation of double jeopardy that is going on in the country with state and federal laws. The Feds institute laws which duplicate the state laws and seek to punish someone when they fail in state courts. They try to image the Hate laws and Civil Rights laws as different crimes but they are not. It’s just lawyer double=speek.
They think we’re not being nice.
They haven’t seen “not nice.” I’m praying it never comes to that. I pray for peaceful resolution to all corruption.
This was an outrageous case.
This law creating such extreme protections for abortion clinics needs to be dismantled.
Now here is the real legal key to the case. That law was advance by Senator Ted Kennedy. In order to get the law passed, he negotiated to agree to EXCLUDE clinic escorts from the law. It's there in black and white on his congressional testimony related to the law. Houck’s attorneys presented that to this court.
Houck’s interaction with the escort was not covered by the FACE act, and therefore any attempt to bring that law to bear in this case was illegal itself - there was no violation of the FACE act.
Now, that having been uncovered, does the DOJ have other cases where someone they are prosecuting (or prosecuted) under the FACE act where that person's interaction was only with an escort?
If so, shouldn't the DOJ drop charged against all of those people?
If someone was convicted under the FACE act where they only had contact with an escort, shouldn't those convictions be vacated?
I couldn’t agree any more with that statement.
Since for a while, it was a hung jury, your fears were well founded. Some idiot on the jury wanted to convict!
He may be able to sue for malicious prosecution. The elements of the charged offence were not present.
Sue the Government and the prosecutor personally.
Sue for violation of civil rights.
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