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proud2BlibKansan

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Tue Sep 4, 2012, 09:58 PM Sep 2012

Anti-abortion group files ethics complaint

The anti-abortion group Operation Rescue on Tuesday lodged an ethics complaint against Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe, alleging that he lied to a judge about key documents being destroyed in a criminal case against Planned Parenthood.

The group accused Howe of lying when he told a judge that documents needed to make the case against Planned Parenthood were destroyed, leading to the unraveling of the case against the Overland Park-based abortion provider.

The case against Planned Parenthood was started by Phill Kline as attorney general in 2003 and continued through his two years as Johnson County district attorney.

Operation Rescue contends that copies of records needed for the Planned Parenthood case where kept by a Topeka judge, who oversaw Kline’s abortion investigation.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/09/04/3796589/anti-abortion-group-files-ethics.html#storylink=cpy

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Anti-abortion group files ethics complaint (Original Post) proud2BlibKansan Sep 2012 OP
Who's their lead counsel - Orly Taitz? n/t Mopar151 Sep 2012 #1
And when this fails miserably, JoeyT Sep 2012 #2
Yes. We're overdue for violence from them. proud2BlibKansan Sep 2012 #3

JoeyT

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2. And when this fails miserably,
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 10:48 PM
Sep 2012

Operation Rescue will go to their fallback position: Riling up more nuts to bomb clinics or murder someone.

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