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Anti-abortion activist set for Texas court date over covert videos
Source: Reuters
World | Wed Feb 3, 2016 1:23pm EST
Anti-abortion activist set for Texas court date over covert videos
BY JON HERSKOVITZ
An anti-abortion activist indicted for using a fake government ID to aid secret filming inside Planned Parenthood facilities will present himself to a Texas court on Thursday and likely seek to have charges dropped, one of his lawyers said.
David Daleiden, indicted in January by a Houston-area grand jury, will appear at a Harris County District Court in Houston and then go through booking, lawyer Jared Woodfill said on Wednesday.
Daleiden is leader of the California-based Center for Medical Progress that released the secretly filmed videos used to accuse Planned Parenthood of trading in aborted fetal tissue. He faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted on charges of tampering with a governmental record, in this case a California driver's license.
"We are likely to present a motion to quash the indictment," Woodfill said. At a news conference last week, Woodfill said there was a runaway grand jury in Harris County that went after whistle blowers instead of wrong doers.
In a twist for the Texas Republican leaders who ordered an investigation and accused the women's health group of illegally trading in aborted fetal tissue, the grand jury in January cleared Planned Parenthood and indicted video makers Daleiden and Sandra Merritt.
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Anti-abortion activist set for Texas court date over covert videos
BY JON HERSKOVITZ
An anti-abortion activist indicted for using a fake government ID to aid secret filming inside Planned Parenthood facilities will present himself to a Texas court on Thursday and likely seek to have charges dropped, one of his lawyers said.
David Daleiden, indicted in January by a Houston-area grand jury, will appear at a Harris County District Court in Houston and then go through booking, lawyer Jared Woodfill said on Wednesday.
Daleiden is leader of the California-based Center for Medical Progress that released the secretly filmed videos used to accuse Planned Parenthood of trading in aborted fetal tissue. He faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted on charges of tampering with a governmental record, in this case a California driver's license.
"We are likely to present a motion to quash the indictment," Woodfill said. At a news conference last week, Woodfill said there was a runaway grand jury in Harris County that went after whistle blowers instead of wrong doers.
In a twist for the Texas Republican leaders who ordered an investigation and accused the women's health group of illegally trading in aborted fetal tissue, the grand jury in January cleared Planned Parenthood and indicted video makers Daleiden and Sandra Merritt.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-plannedparenthood-texas-idUSKCN0VC2AN
