{"id":1317766,"date":"2022-02-20T11:07:39","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T16:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1317766"},"modified":"2022-02-20T11:07:52","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T16:07:52","slug":"california-prosecutors-attempt-to-ban-exculpatory-evidence-from-pro-life-journalists-criminal-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-prosecutors-attempt-to-ban-exculpatory-evidence-from-pro-life-journalists-criminal-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"California Prosecutors Attempt To Ban Exculpatory Evidence From Pro-Life Journalist\u2019s Criminal Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcalifornia-prosecutors-attempt-to-ban-exculpatory-evidence-from-pro-life-journalists-criminal-trial%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1317766&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-17-at-10.00.52-PM-1024x641-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>California prosecutors in the upcoming criminal trial of David Daleiden, who could face jail time for recording conversations with Planned Parenthood employees about baby body part trafficking, filed a pretrial motion requesting specific evidence be barred from the trial. Friday afternoon, Daleiden and his legal team filed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/559803489\/David-Daleiden-Opposes-State-Of-California-Motions-in-Limine\">response<\/a> to that motion, arguing that prosecutors are attempting to ban exculpatory evidence that proves his undercover videos were indeed legal. <\/p>\n<p>Attorney General Rob Bonta\u2019s office is prosecuting Daleiden as if the charges against him include violating National Abortion Federation (NAF) policies when he recorded conversations at their convention. Daleiden\u2019s counsel argues that NAF\u2019s policies and procedures are irrelevant because he was seeking evidence of criminal activity, in accordance with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crisismagazine.com\/2017\/california-case-david-daleiden\">California law<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only dispute is whether the Defendants purposely recorded confidential communications or whether these conversations in public spaces where anyone could overhear them were reasonably intended by the Does, not by NAF, to be confined to themselves and the Defendants,\u201d Daleiden\u2019s written response states. <\/p>\n<p>The AG\u2019s office seeks to exclude one piece of evidence in particular from the trial: testimony from the former Orange County district attorney, Tony Rackauckas. The former DA has testified that without Daleiden\u2019s undercover videos, he would have never been able to sue and effectively shut down illegal fetal tissue harvesting businesses operating in California, also known as Planned Parenthood\u2019s&nbsp;\u201cmiddle-man\u201d procurement companies. <\/p>\n<p>The state wants to prevent Rackauckas from testifying because his statements affirm what California state law already <a href=\"https:\/\/codes.findlaw.com\/ca\/penal-code\/pen-sect-633-5.html\">establishes<\/a>, and is the crux of Daleiden\u2019s defense: Journalists recording undercover videos are protected by law if they are making reasonable, good faith efforts to investigate violent crimes.<\/p>\n<p>In his personal declaration, Rackauckas states that Daleiden\u2019s videos gave him not only the evidence he needed to pursue his 2016 investigation of the tissue procurement companies, but evidence the companies responded to by admitting guilt, paying $7.8 million, and closing their businesses. Daleiden\u2019s videos may have been undercover, but because they revealed \u201cevidence of infanticide, of partial birth abortion, of felony battery and of the illegal sales of fetal tissues and organs,\u201d they are legal under California law. <\/p>\n<p>Prosectors are also requesting that the court prevent Daleiden\u2019s defense from using terms like \u201cbaby body parts\u201d and describing failed abortions or partial-birth abortions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe AG essentially seeks a gag order at trial concerning testimony and public statements that would prevent both defendants and their counsel from characterizing the evidence as they see fit,\u201d Daleiden\u2019s counsel wrote. <\/p>\n<p>There is no shortage of examples of activists and journalists who use concealed-camera videos in California to expose criminal behavior, such as the undercover stings investigating <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2017\/03\/29\/california-is-fine-with-undercover-sting-videos-that-expose-animal-cruelty\/\">animal cruelty<\/a> at farms and slaughterhouses. California prosecutors only seem to take issue with undercover videos when they expose cruelty to women and unborn children.<\/p>\n<p>The criminal trial is tentatively scheduled to take place in April. <\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Madeline Osburn is managing editor at The Federalist. Contact her at madeline@thefederalist.com or <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/madelineorr\">follow her on Twitter<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California prosecutors in the upcoming criminal trial of David Daleiden, who could face jail time for recording conversations with Planned Parenthood employees about baby body part trafficking, filed a pretrial &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1317766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1317766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1317766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1317766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}