Developing: Judge Orders Guilty Verdict Before Jury Considers Verdict In Planned Parenthood Versus David Daleiden Case

Let me repeat that title again: Judge Orders Guilty Verdict Before Jury Retired To Consider Verdict for Planned Parenthood Versus David Daleiden Case.

What? Where, anywhere outside a matrix of pure delusion, is this possible under the rule of law in America? What kind of judge is this guy?  And the pitch from Planned Parenthood lawyers? They’re suing Daleiden because their mission is to “protect the Planned Parenthood brand.”

Note how they don’t care about protecting humanity from Planned Parenthood profiting from selling and trafficking baby organs and tissues to the highest bidder.  No, it’s only about their sacred Planned Parenthood brand. After all, as Obama would say, “God Bless Planned Parenthood.”

So what is it that hurt the brand?  Planned Parenthood says: “the words spoken by Planned Parenthood personnel on those videos are what hurt the brand.”  Got it.  I agree with James O’Keefe.  This is F’d.

https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1194978739102375936?s=20

Planned Parenthood is suing Daleiden and his colleagues after they released secretly recorded videos of executives haggling over the sale and price of baby body parts from abortions in their facilities.

Daleiden is contesting all the charges. However, Judge William Orrick told the jury that he has decided to find Daleiden guilty of trespass during his undercover journalism. Daleiden previously lost an attempt to have Judge Orrick removed from the case, alleging he was biased against the defendants.

The judge stated that the jury must find that Daleiden and others “trespassed at the 2014 Forum in Miami, Florida; at the 2015 MeDC meeting in Orlando, Florida; and the 2015 National Conference in Washington, D.C.”

“I have already determined that these defendants trespassed at each of these locations. Because I determined that these defendants trespassed, the law assumes that Planned Parenthood has been harmed and is entitled to an award of nominal damages such as one dollar for each trespass,” he told the jury as the trial comes to a conclusion.

The judge said the jury must accept his rulings and only decide if Planned Parenthood suffered damage from the trespass and what damages they should be awarded.

Maybe Kamala Harris or team Obama might have a clue as to why this Judge Orrick is potentially compromised and crossing the line? The fact is that Kamala Harris worked closely with the California District Attorney in 2012 to destroy video evidence in this case, but I digress.

Daleiden recorded Planned Parenthood executives stating they changed abortion techniques to ensure better and more profitable body parts were retrieved for sale. His attorneys argue that the recordings took place in public places, such as restaurants and hotels, where participants have no expectation of privacy.

The judge in the “Baby Body Parts” trial of activist and journalist David Daleiden has ordered the jury find him guilty of trespassing at Planned Parenthood conferences and clinics — before the jury retired to consider a verdict.

Okay.  Got it.  Planned Parenthood has profited crap tons of cash from government funding, they’ve in turn funded crap tons of cash into Democrat politics, they’ve profited from selling the baby organs and tissues that they strategically harvest for the best possible buck, and they’re suing an investigative journalist for hundreds of thousands of dollars….for trespassing.  Nothing to see here, folks.  Move along and move your attention to worrying about the protection and legal rights of all Whistleblowers. Wait, what?

Planned Parenthood investigator @daviddaleiden“Didn’t do it for profit or for personal gain. He did it for the paramount public purpose of letting Americans know and law enforcers investigate whether and to what extent our laws may have been violated.”

Addressing the jury at the close of the trial, Peter Breen, counsel for Daleiden and his colleagues, said the case is “about the steps it took for private citizen investigators to cut through a curtain of silence and concealment.”

“They didn’t do it for profit or for personal gain. They did it for the paramount public purpose of letting Americans know and law enforcers investigate whether and to what extent our laws may have been violated. And they are not just any laws, but these are laws relating to homicide against born human beings, laws against the selling of body parts and organs of aborted human fetuses, and the laws against changing medical procedures without knowledge and consent to obtain more valuable fetal parts,” he told the jury.

Breen argued that at no point during the trial did Planned Parenthood dispute the accuracy of the secretly recorded videos.

“Now, Planned Parenthood could have tried to dispute this issue, but when push came to shove here at trial, a place where you need hard evidence to back up your claims, they had nothing. This is what so outraged the public. The true words of Planned Parenthood’s top abortion doctors and other personnel,” he told the jury.

He added that it was not a case of fraud or racketeering but rather one about the freedom of the press.

“This is a case of undercover journalism. And we, the people, need that information. You need that information. You may not like seeing that information. It may be difficult or whatever. But we don’t want to stop the flow of information.”

Also addressing the jury was Charles Limandri, another lawyer for Daleiden and his colleagues, who said the evidence they heard showed “people, obviously, making huge profits selling and buying fetal tissue, which is not legal.”

He said the charges were an attempt by Planned Parenthood to “conceal criminal activity.”

“And they even want you to use a threat of punitive damages to stop them — stop anybody from ever being able to show — do that again. And they want to destroy these defendants financially.”

For more background on this case, here’s what we posted on COTR earlier this week. Now we await the jury’s verdict.

Let’s hope the jury ignores Judge Orrick and does the right thing for humanity.