Posted on 11/15/2019 5:42:01 PM PST by Morgana
A federal jury found Friday that an anti-abortion activist illegally secretly recorded workers at Planned Parenthood clinics and is liable for violating federal and state laws. The jury ordered him, the Center for Medical Progress and other parties to pay nearly $2.3 million in damages.
The jury awarded $1 million in damages, but offenses under the federal Racketeer and Corrupt Organizations Act are considered acts of organized crime and penalties awarded for them are automatically tripled.
After a six-week civil trial, the San Francisco jury found David Daleiden trespassed on private property and committed other crimes in recording the 2015 videos. He and the Center for Medical Progress and various employees were ordered to pay varying amounts.
Daleiden and a co-defendant, Sandra Merritt, are set to go on trial starting Dec. 6 on 14 counts each of invasion of privacy. They have pleaded not guilty and argue they are undercover journalists shielded from prosecution.
Planned Parenthood sued the activists as part of what the group called “a multi-year illegal effort to manufacture a malicious campaign.”
“The jury recognized today that those behind the campaign broke the law in order to advance their goals of banning safe, legal abortion in this country, and to prevent Planned Parenthood from serving the patients who depend on us,” the organization’s acting president and CEO, Alexis McGill Johnson, said in a statement.
Daleiden said the jury reached the verdict after a “biased judge with close Planned Parenthood ties spent six weeks trying to influence the jury with pre-determined rulings and suppressed the video evidence.”
The judge in the civil trial barred the release of some the videos.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
San Fagsicko, a Mob Rule city.
The Nazis used to make ashtrays from the skulls of “subhuman beings”. Planned Barrenhood uses tissue and organs from “subhuman creatures”.
Ever spend $7000 for an oil change? Ask Cecille Richards. Lamborghinis cost a fortune to maintain. Pimping baby parts ain’t easy but someone’s gotta do it.
One news site was reporting 2.5 million is that not correct keylargo?
“Ever spend $7000 for an oil change? “
Oil change or just to degrease her face and hair?
This is far from over .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep-xgd_eETE
it is bs and it will be appealed to courts ad jurisdictions not so in bed with planned butchery
How was this ever a RICO case? That alone should be grounds for appeal.
california laws allow 1-party recording if one party believes crimes are being committed. they recorded pp discussing their admitted criminal behavior on tape.
“california laws allow 1-party recording if one party believes crimes are being committed. they recorded pp discussing their admitted criminal behavior on tape.”
Thank you for that information! This should have never gone to trial then. On to the Supreme Court, can feel it in my bones. Say good bye to Roe.
For those outside of California what is a RICO? I’ve read that word over and over but what is it?
This country is so over. Can we just split now?
It is a Federal statute and stands for “Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act”
Sounds like a judge right out of Rumpole’s adventures.
For the other side of this story see:
After Videos Sworn As True, Biased Judge Directs Pro-Planned Parenthood Verdict.
In addition, from Justia:
“The federal Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) law was passed in 1970 as the “ultimate hit man” in mob prosecutions. Prior to RICO, prosecutors could only try mob-related crimes individually.”
https://www.justia.com/criminal/docs/rico/
As well:
“Where once the criminal law was an exclusively moral undertaking, it now has expanded to the point that it is principally utilitarian in nature. In some instances the law now makes criminal the failure to act in conformance with some imposed legal duty. In others the law criminalizes conduct undertaken without any culpable intent. “
and
“So what does RICO add to the criminal code?
The only apparent answer is a deeply troubling one. Although the RICO Act adds nothing of value in terms of new prohibitions of truly criminal behavior, it adds powerful weapons to the prosecutors’ arsenal. Our criticism extends far beyond lodging a complaint that RICO is duplicative of other criminal prohibitions and unfair in its broad scope and discretionary application by prosecutors. RICO represents the worst the criminal justice system has to offer any citizen: the arbitrary wielding of the government’s awesome power to impose criminal sanctions. This outrageous law should be repealed at once.”
Do tell.
https://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?id=215
Should be grounds for Bar Association punishments against the PPH lawyers and the judge. Strip them of their bar licenses for at least 6 months. That would be a great message for journalists
Various governments have become your enemy, folks.
JoMa
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