Who is David Daleiden? David Daleiden is one of the most skilled and successful investigative journalists of our generation. David founded his Center for Medical Progress in 2013 to go undercover inside the highest echelons of the abortion and fetal tissue industries.
Today's dismissal in Houston is a huge win for the First Amendment rights of undercover journalists. David Daleiden used standard undercover journalism techniques and followed all applicable laws in doing so. This meritless and retaliatory prosecution should never have been brought. Planned Parenthood did wrong here, not David Daleiden.
David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt of the Center for Medical Progress posed as representatives for a fake biotechnology firm looking to purchase fetal tissue and fully intact aborted cadavers. The two used a hidden camera to record meetings with high-ranking Planned Parenthood employees.
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At the February 21, 2020 arraignment, Daleiden and Sandra Merritt pleaded not guilty.
A verdict awarded the plaintiffs more than $2.2 million on November 16, 2019, and Daleiden was instructed to pay $500,000 in compensatory damages (most of which will be tripled under federal racketeering law ), as well as $870,000 in punitive damages to Planned Parenthood.:1 .
On Daleiden and Merritt's appeal, Judge Suzanne Bolanos decided in July 2020 that prosecutors could try Daleiden on nine counts and Merritt on eight.
Daleiden turned himself in on February 4, 2016, and appeared in court after posting $3,000 bond. He could have faced a prison sentence of up to 22 years if convicted, according to The Washington Post. He reportedly rejected a plea deal in the case.
Early life and family. Daleiden says he is the "child of a crisis pregnancy" and grew up "culturally Catholic.". Daleiden graduated from Davis High School in 2007 and later from Claremont McKenna College.
On January 25, 2016, a grand jury in Harris County, Texas that originally had investigated the Gulf Coast chapter of Planned Parenthood and cleared them of any wrongdoing,:1 instead indicted Daleiden on a felony count of tampering with governmental records by making and using a fake driver's license , and a misdemeanor charge for emailing an offer to buy fetal tissue for $1,600.
On June 30, 2017, state prosecutors refiled the 14 dismissed charges with numerical identifications for each video. On August 24, 2017, the San Francisco Superior Court rejected new defense motions to dismiss the charges and allowed the case to proceed. Daleiden then pleaded not guilty.
After almost 30 months as an undercover investigative journalist, David publicly unveiled the damning and gruesome results of his investigation, in a release he called the “Human Capital Project.”. David uncovered evidence of infants born alive and vivisected for their organs, illegal partial birth abortions, and a host ...
It is an honor to represent him.”. On July 14 , 2015, David Daleiden shocked the world with the release of the first undercover video of the “Human Capital Project.”. Almost immediately thereafter, the abortion industry began filing lawsuits.
David Daleiden is an investigative journalist who went undercover for 30 months to expose illegal activities of abortion industry.
To this day, pro-life sentiment in America is higher, legislative and public policy are more pro-life, and pro-life activity is greater at the nation’s abortion clinics, all because of David’s brave and monumental work uncovering the terrible abuses committed by Planned Parenthood and the entire abortion industry.
The Thomas More Society , as a national public interest law firm, is representing David pro bono, relying wholly on the support of many faithful donors across America and beyond.
Later, he and a federal jury awarded Planned Parenthood a $16 million verdict against Daleiden and his organization. They are appealing.
Other evidence indicates the abortion giant may have broken HIPAA patient privacy laws.
Despite Orrick having “an ongoing and longstanding professional relationship with one of the named Plaintiffs,” he refused to recuse himself from the case, lawyers for the Center for Medical Progress said.
Federal law requires judges to recuse themselves from cases in which they have a financial interest or the “ownership of a legal or equitable interest, however small.” However, the Wall Street Journal noted that the law does not penalize judges for violating the law.
The Wall Street Journal did not include any details about or name the group with which Orrick had financial connections. Either he or someone in his immediate family owned stock from the group that he ruled in favor of, the investigation found. He heard the case sometime between 2010 and 2020.
Planned Parenthood repeatedly has denied all allegations of wrong-doing, and many news outlets now parrot its talking points that the undercover videos were deceptively edited or debunked, even though that is not true. An independent forensics investigation verified that the videos were authentic.
The letter, which was publicly filed on the docket in his case, said the stock neither impacted nor affected his decisions ,” according to the report.
In January, Daleiden was indicted by a Texas grand jury for felony tampering with a government record (he had used a false ID during his undercover investigation) and a criminal misdemeanor attempt to purchase body parts of aborted children, while no charges were pursued against Planned Parenthood — proceedings his attorneys claim were corrupted because of a biased district attorney.
Following a hearing in June where the misdemeanor charge was dismissed, Daleiden has waited a month for the remaining charge to be dropped. If playback doesn't begin shortly, try restarting your device. Videos you watch may be added to the TV's watch history and influence TV recommendations.
David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt of the Center for Medical Progress posed as representatives for a fake biotechnology firm looking to purchase fetal tissue and fully intact aborted cadavers. The two used a hidden camera to record meetings with high-ranking Planned Parenthood employees.
This meritless and retaliatory prosecution should never have been brought. Planned Parenthood did wrong here, not David Daleiden. In January, Daleiden was indicted by a Texas grand jury for felony tampering with a government record ...
Not long after the first few videos were released , Planned Parenthood claimed they were manipulatively edited and unreliable — in spite of the fact that Daleiden released the full, unedited footage on YouTube. Daleiden will be the guest speaker at the Texas Right to Life annual Gala on September 17 in Houston.
I am enormously relieved! Guerilla journalism seems to be the ONLY investigative journalism done in America these days! Without them, our society stands NO CHANCE at all because the mainstream media is completely corrupt and has surrendered its mandate to be the watchdog for the people.
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Pro-life Americans United for Life and Live Action also questioned the federal court's violation of Daleiden's constitutional rights and addressed "abortion exceptionalism," which TMS defines as the "unconstitutional idea that the abortion industry deserves some sort of special treatment under the law.".
Lamenting how many civil rights organizations advocate solely for the rights of narrowly defined groups rather than the rights of all, Brejcha decried the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, which expressed concern over the RICO suit against non-journalist Scheidler in 1994, but has been silent about investigative journalist Daleiden. For its part, a brief by the Free Speech Scholars and Animal Advocacy Organizations (representing Animal Outlook, PETA, Mercy For Animals and the Government Accountability Project) asserted an "interest in preserving robust constitutional protections for speech (and the precursors of speech) and for those who gather news and report on matters of public concern."
He said that TMS attorneys were "forbidden any defense based on the truth of what Daleiden's investigation uncovered.". The friend-of-court filings from 20 attorneys general address the issue, arguing that Daleiden's report on crime led to investigations by Congress, as well as state and local authorities.
Scheidler, hosted by pro-life advocate Abby Johnson (who once managed a Planned Parenthood abortuary), chronicles Scheidler's and Brejcha's tireless pro-life advocacy. Johnson said of Schei dler and Brejcha, "Due to the dedication of a select few, we have the rights needed to be present in the fight today.".
According to Breen, Vice President Kamala Harris (a former California state attorney general) and current state attorney general Xavier Becerra "should have gone after Planned Parenthood for their illegal and unconsented sale of aborted children's body parts, rather than after David Daleiden for uncovering these gruesome practices." He added that the duo acted in "bad faith."
In a press release, TMS asserted that there is widespread concern over the constitutional principles implicated in the decision by Judge William H. Orrick III of the U.S. district court in San Francisco to levy $16 million in attorney fees against Daleiden in December 2020 for secretly recording abortion providers.
The lawsuit against Planned Parenthood, Harris , and Becerra charges that these defendants as well as other state officials and law enforcement agents conspired with abortion leaders to pursue an unconstitutional “content-based” selective, discriminatory enforcement of California’s anti-eavesdropping law to cover up his videotaped findings about the abortion industry’s role in aborted babies’ body parts trafficking, including not only illicit sales (at specimen-based rates, regardless of actual incurred costs) but also alteration of late-term abortion techniques designed to yield a gruesome harvest of premium body parts, even “intact fetuses” often born alive so that whole brains or other sought-after organs could be secured and re-sold at very high prices.
Thomas More Society, in addition to filing this lawsuit, together with San Francisco’s Dhillon Law Group, is also currently helping to defend Daleiden against California’s charges of felony eavesdropping, brought by Becerra based on an investigation by his predecessor, Ms. Harris, now the Junior Senator from California. The Society is also helping to defend civil lawsuits brought by National Abortion Federation and Planned Parenthood, including appealing from a multimillion-dollar verdict on which a final judgment was recently entered in the Planned Parenthood civil suit. On top of that, the Society is defending a class action lawsuit against Daleiden and CMP up in Seattle, and two years ago they won the dismissal of another criminal charge against Daleiden down in Houston.
The Complaint for Damages, Declaratory, and Injunctive Relief – Demand for Jury Trial, on behalf of David Daleiden and the Center for Medical Progress was filed in the United States District Court for the Central District of California, by the Dhillon Law Group and the Thomas More Society on May 12, 2020. Read the complaint, The Center for Medical Progress and David Daleiden v. Xavier Becerra, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, National Abortion Federation, StemExpress, Kamala Harris, Jill Habig, Beth Parker, et al, here.
This newly filed federal civil rights lawsuit seeks justice for what the Center for Medical Progress labels a “brazen, unprecedented, and ongoing conspiracy to selectively use California’s video recording laws as a political weapon to silence disfavored speech.” Daleiden, in his undercover investigation for the Center for Medical Progress, has been the first journalist to ever be prosecuted under California’s eavesdropping law.