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The prosecution will never get a "guilty" in this case. Wait until defense counsel hits discovery mode and and all the dirty laundry comes out.

This won't be a one way street. PP thinks it's "won" this one? LMAO. It's only going to get worse from here.

In other words, this isn't over and the prosecutor is now going to be facing some very uncomfortable questions (starting with failing to recuse due to conflict of interest, at a minimum).

Is this a federal grand jury?

otherwise, IIRC, the videos were shot on the east and west coast, not Houston, and the fake ID's were obtained in CA, so how would a jury in Houston find any standing?

Only under this administration! Piddler must have found a new boyfriend!

The one of the clinics talked about in a video was in Texas

If you people are going to discuss these topics you should at least learn a little bit about them, and not just the crap from the anti-abortion groups, because they will lie.

Planned Parenthood's legal strategy was in some ways similar to how corporations facing major white-collar criminal investigations often cooperate closely with prosecutors to try to influence the outcome.

A Republican who has been the Houston area's prosecutor since 2013, Anderson last summer pledged a "thorough investigation" and a prosecution to the full extent of the law "should we find that laws were broken." Campaign material from her 2014 race for district attorney described her as a "proud, pro-life Texan mother of two."

Planned Parenthood said that Daleiden and Merritt used fake driver's licenses in April 2015 when they posed as executives from a fictitious company to secretly film conversations at the Houston facility. That led to the charges they used fake government documents with the intent to defraud.

One critical juncture in the case may have occurred when Planned Parenthood gave law enforcement an important tip: Merritt's true name, according to Schaffer.

Her identity remained unknown from the time she visited Planned Parenthood with a fake California driver's license until about December when Daleiden revealed it during a deposition as part of a separate civil lawsuit in state court in Los Angeles, Schaffer said.

As part of his strategy, Schaffer said he explicitly pushed prosecutors to charge Daleiden and Merritt.

"I made the argument regarding the charges that the grand jury returned," Schaffer said in the interview, "but I did not have to make them very forcefully because it was self-evident to the prosecutors that they engaged in this conduct."

That's just because they've got nothing else. No facts, no truth, no integrity.

The one of the clinics talked about in a video was in Texas

If you people are going to discuss these topics you should at least learn a little bit about them, and not just the crap from the anti-abortion groups, because they will lie.

"First, at a press conference today, the defense attorneys asked me re-present the investigation to another grand jury. I am not going to do that. We have a long standing policy against grand jury shopping. That means when a grand jury comes back with a decision we don't like we don't go and find another one to get the result we want. That violates the integrity of the whole system. The only time we re-present is if new evidence comes to light. Twelve Harris County citizens have spoken and I respect their decision even if it conflicts with my personal beliefs.

"The defense attorneys also said today that the "Tampering with a Governmental Record cases should not have been charged as a felony since young people who are caught with fake ID's typically face misdemeanor charges. But under Texas Law, if a person uses a fake ID from another state, it is a felony charge. That's the law."

However, legal experts say that even if the activists are convicted, it's unlikely they will face any prison time.

Hey Paddler, I don't hate Planned Parenthood. I hate the fact that it simply a money washing operation, where it is given my tax money to be given, in turn, back to Politicians.

That, and the fact your mother wasn't a customer.

PP provides a wide variety of much needed healthcare services to women, especially low income women. Anti-abortion groups lie about PP to further their agenda of undermining a woman's constitutionally protected right to choose.

The far right doesn't care about the truth, and weak politicians cave to prejudice and stupidity. In this morning's Trib, our Governor Herbert said he'll not change his position on cutting funding to PP now that the video makers have been indicted. Spineless dishrag, he is.

This is a really easy issue to understand, unless of course you're stupid, bigoted, sexist, and believe in forcing your values on others. Maybe if women incorporated their uteri Republicans would stop trying to regulate them. Worth a shot, don't you think?