Prosecutors with the Harris County District Attorney's office dropped the charges before the pair could pursue their legal motion to quash the charges at a hearing at 9 a.m. Central time, according to the Houston Chronicle.
 
This morning, CMP project lead David Daleiden called the dismissal of the charges "a resounding vindication of the First Amendment rights of all citizen journalists, and also a clear warning to any of Planned Parenthood's political cronies who would attack whistleblowers to protect Planned Parenthood from scrutiny."
 
"Planned Parenthood tried to collude with public officials to manipulate the legal process to their own benefit, and they failed," Daleiden said. "A year after the release of the undercover videos, the ongoing nationwide investigation of Planned Parenthood by the House Select Investigative Panel makes clear that Planned Parenthood is the guilty party in the harvesting and trafficking of baby body parts for profit."
 
 "The indictment was politically-motivated and should never have been filed in the first place," said Mat Staver, the founder of Liberty Counsel, who represented Merritt. Peter Breen of the Thomas More Society represented Daleiden in the Harris County courtroom this morning.
 
Texas prosecutors agreed with his attorneys that the grand jury, which was called to investigate charges against Planned Parenthood, had been wrongly held over to indict the pro-life advocates instead.
 
The two faced up to 20 years in prison for a felony count of tampering with a government record for using false identification to gain access to Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast (PPGC), which is based in Houston.
 
Daleiden posed as "Robert Sarkis" and Sandra Merritt as "Susan Tennenbaum," employees of the fictitious biological company Biomax, seeking unborn babies' body parts for experimentation.
 
There, they recorded officials discussing how they obtained "intact" fetal cadavers, used budget line items to dress up the remuneration Planned Parenthood received for aborted babies' organs and tissue, and filmed the dissection of a child. (Screengrab via CMP)
 
Dropping the felony counts means that all charges have now been dismissed in Texas. Harris County Court at Law Judge Diane Bull dismissed a misdemeanor count of trafficking in human organs against Daleiden onJune 14.
 
That charge stemmed from an e-mail Daleiden sent PPGC, offering to purchase human organs as part of a 30-month-long nationwide sting investigation that infiltrated the highest levels of Planned Parenthood. A string of undercover videos exposed the little-known practice, which Planned Parenthood refers to as its "fetal tissue donation" program, to a national audience, triggering investigations in multiple states, as well as the U.S. House of Representatives.
 
Although initially called to investigate PPGC, the Harris County grand jury indicted Daleiden and Merritt for using false identification, a felony, and a misdemeanor charge of attempting to purchase human organs, onJanuary 25.
 
The defendants turned down offers of a plea bargain that would result in probation instead of risking decades in a Texas prison, confident they would prevail.
 
In April, their attorneys asked a judge to dismiss the charges, because District Attorney Devon Anderson's office colluded with Planned Parenthood. PPGC's attorney, Josh Schaeffer, told the media that from the outset of the potential charges, he "explicitly pushed prosecutors" to turn the investigation against the whistleblowers, rather than his clients.
 
Anderson confessed in a May court brief that her office may have skirted legal prohibitions barring such an incestuous relationship between accuser and accused, but the lawbreaking was "minor and harmless." She further dismissed her office's wrongdoing as a "mere technical, inconsequential violation of" the law and...
 
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