Reuters has published an illuminating explainer piece
describing the legal maneuvering that turned the Planned Parenthood case in Texas upside down.
On Monday, a Harris County grand jury refused to indict the organization's Gulf Coast affiliate, and then surprisingly instead indicted the two anti-abortion activists on charges they used falsified government documents with the intent to defraud.
Planned Parenthood's Houston lawyer Josh Schaffer encouraged prosecutors to charge David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt.
Reuters reports:
"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."
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