The trial in Planned Parenthood’s flimsy revenge suit demanding millions from pro-life hero Sandra Merritt entered its fourth week today. I’ll share more later about what happened when Sandra’s colleague, David Daleiden, testified today.
But right now, I want to take you inside the courtroom to expose a huge challenge. U.S. District Court Judge William Orrick—a man with past links to Planned Parenthood—has handcuffed Sandra’s defense.
As Liberty Counsel Chief Litigation Counsel Harry Mihet explains below, “our hands are tied and the deck is stacked.” It’s an unfair fight in America’s most liberal city, San Francisco.
And that’s why I ask for your prayers and your generous support now.
We’re going up against the almost-unlimited resources of America’s abortion giant—a killing machine which murders 330,000 babies each year. It has a battery of high-priced lawyers from one of America’s largest, most successful law firms.
Planned Parenthood is waging a vindictive, merciless battle in federal court to destroy our client Sandra Merritt—to steal her First Amendment rights and ruin her financially.
And it has an unlikely ally—U.S. District Court Judge William Orrick.
Liberty Counsel Chief Litigation Counsel Harry Mihet explains below. These facts from the heart of the battle are disturbing . . .
Despite some limited victories last week in presenting some key evidence to the jury, the defense team remains seriously shackled in defending Sandra Merritt and her colleagues against Planned Parenthood’s revenge “baby parts” lawsuit in San Francisco.
The first major handicap we have is the inability to play for the jury the actual videos over which Sandra and her colleagues are being sued.
With one exception (Dr. Nucatola’s “crush below, crush above” 4-minute video), the Jury is still NOT being allowed to see ANY of the HUNDREDS of hours of video evidence obtained by Sandra and her colleagues, which evidence demonstrates beyond any doubt that Planned Parenthood was violating federal laws with its baby parts sale scheme.
Instead, Planned Parenthood witnesses are allowed to gush over how great and wonderful PP is, and how it helps poor people get cancer screenings and HIV tests. Planned Parenthood is allowed to show only the most innocent parts of these videos (the pleasantries, the “hellos” and the “goodbyes”) to show the jury that the videos were filmed “illegally.”
AND, even worse, Planned Parenthood is allowed to tell the jury that the videos were “deceptively” or “misleadingly” “EDITED” to provoke outrage against PP. BUT WE ARE PROHIBITED FROM PLAYING THE VIDEOS TO SHOW THAT THIS IS A LIE.
A SECOND major handicap imposed on the defense in Planned Parenthood’s revenge baby-parts trial is that we are forbidden from showing the jury the EXTENSIVE evidence that David, Sandra and their colleagues obtained BEFORE the recordings took place about Planned Parenthood’s atrocious crimes in selling baby parts for profit.
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As just one example, David and Sandra can DISCUSS “in a couple of sentences” a Stanford study involving Langendorff perfusions which required BEATING HEARTS to be obtained from Planned Parenthood.
But we CANNOT SHOW the jury the actual study, nor can we call a Stanford PhD to the stand to tell the jury what the study means, and to tell the jury that SHE TOLD DAVID WHAT THE STUDY MEANS BEFORE THE RECORDINGS TOOK PLACE.
And guess what Planned Parenthood’s response to our evidence is? That’s right! They say it’s superficial and unconvincing.
Our hands are tied, and the deck is stacked.
By the way, that Stanford study Harry mentioned offered damning evidence that still-beating hearts were cut from the chests of babies harvested in Planned Parenthood facilities.
But the court is censoring that information—and much more—from the jury.
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Sandra and her colleague, David Daleiden, exposed on video Planned Parenthood’s ghoulish business harvesting and selling brains, hearts, livers and more from precious, innocent tiny children.
Their revelations shook the abortion giant’s bloody empire.
That’s why Planned Parenthood is fighting back tooth and nail. It’s desperate to salvage its damaged reputation. To do that, it must take Sandra down.
It has dozens of attorneys furiously working to punish Sandra and send a stern message to anyone else following in her footsteps.
And, as I’ve shown, the deck is stacked.
LifeNews Note: Mat Staver is the Chairman of Liberty Counsel Action and Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel.
