Explosive Reveal: Prosecutor in David Daleiden Case Was "In Bed" With Planned Parenthood

Ben Johnson : May 25, 2016
LifeSiteNews.com

"The conduct of Harris County prosecutors in this case is outrageous and illegal. We look forward to pressing our motion to quash this indictment in court." -Peter Breen

(Houston, TX)—[LifeSiteNews] In explosive new court filings the attorney for Planned Parenthood admits that he secretly received a videotape from the prosecutor's office, and says the grand jury never voted on whether to indict Planned Parenthood for selling aborted human beings' body parts; and the district attorney admits her office violated the law in its handling of David Daleiden's indictment—but that infraction was "minor and harmless." (Photo: American Life League/via LifeSiteNews)

The Center for Medical Progress' 30-month-long investigation went public last July, exposing the Houston-based Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast (PPGC). A grand jury in Harris County, Texas, was impaneled to decide whether it should press charges.

CMP's defenders questioned whether Anderson presented the full evidence to the grand jury, a charge that dogged her handling of the case of abortionist Douglas Karpen—who was not indicted despite the testimony of three eyewitnesses who said he killed newborns with his bare hands.

Planned Parenthood's attorney, Josh Schaeffer, said the prosecutor's office indicated to him that "the grand jury had not even voted on whether to indict PPGC or any of its employees."

He said, as soon as the investigation came to his attention, he pushed to have the pro-life investigators indicted.

On January 25, the grand jury instead indicted Daleiden and Merritt for using false identification, a felony that carries up to 20 years in prison, as well as a misdemeanor charge of attempting to purchase human organs.

In April, Daleiden's attorneys said those charges should be dismissed, because the DA's office illegally colluded with Planned Parenthood.

In District Attorney Devon Anderson's response, she and Planned Parenthood's attorney essentially admit they worked in unison on charging CMP investigators and violated another aspect of state law, but say the indictments should stand, anyway.

PPGC's attorney Josh Schaeffer says in a sworn affidavit that he tried to obtain CMP's unedited video footage—a potential PR nightmare for his employer—and "suggested" to prosecutor Sunni Mitchell that she "request the unedited video footage from the [Texas] Attorney General's Office." However, the state attorney general only...

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