The following comes from a June 14 story on the Federalist.
A Houston judge has thrown out the misdemeanor charges against David Daleiden, the man behind the undercover videos exposing Planned Parenthood’s organ-trafficking scheme.
In January, a grand jury indicted Daleiden, of the Center for Medical Progress, for the purchase and sale of human organs, a misdemeanor. No charges were brought against the nation’s largest abortion provider, despite video footage of their executives haggling over the price of body parts harvested from aborted babies.
Judge Diane Bull, a judge in Harris County, Texas, dismissed the charges on Monday, ruling that the court doesn’t have the legal jurisdiction to hear the case as the indictment ignores a legal exception, The Houston Chronicle reported.
“This is a huge win for the pro-life movement. The charges brought by Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson were spurious at best,” said Jared Woodfill, one of Daleiden’s lawyers, according to Breitbart Texas.
In April, Daleiden’s attorneys filed a motion to quash the charges against the pro-life activist, alleging prosecutorial misconduct. In a statement included in the district attorney’s response to Daleiden’s motion, Josh Schaffer, attorney for Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, admitted that one of the DAs behind the indictment illegally shared information with the abortion clinic.
As The Federalist reported, the individuals who brought the charges before the grand jury have a history with the abortion industry….
Praise God and thank you St. Thomas More.
And thank you Judge Diane Bull and Attorney Jared Woodfill.
Let’s all keep on praying for David and his legal team!
Thanks be to God for His Mercy. This WAS a shot across the bow of the good ship PRO-LIFE. PP DOES NOT want the common folk to KNOW or actually SEE, the unholy acts going on behind their closed doors. David is deserving of a medal for being a courages American. God bless his attorneys and supporters. Does this address the status (or stop) the use of the undercover videos?
Thanks be to God!
Now, counsel for Mr. Daleiden should file a claim for full reimbursement of attorney costs and court fees, preparatory to filing civil suit for malicious prosecution. There was never any basis to this charge, and on top of that there was prima facie evidence of prosecutorial misconduct.
Luke 21:12-18 But before all these things, they will lay their hands upon you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and into prisons, dragging you before kings and governors, for my name’ s sake. And it shall happen unto you for a testimony. Lay it up therefore into your hearts, not to meditate before how you shall answer: For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to resist and gainsay. And you shall be betrayed by your parents and brethren, and kinsmen and friends; and some of you they will put to death. And you shall be hated by all men for my name’ s sake. But a hair of your head shall not perish. – Douay-Rheims