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Kansas Liberty: 18 November 2008
Abortionist's lawyers hope to have case jettisoned because a previous case was launched by pro-life AG Phill Kline
Testimony continues in Tiller case
Lawyers for late-term abortionist Dr. George Tiller continued today to attempt to persuade a Sedgwick County judge that an investigation that led to the filing of 19 misdemeanor charges against Tiller was tainted because a previous case was launched by a former pro-life Attorney General, Phill Kline.
Kline's case was thrown out by a judge, but then reviewed by incoming Democratic Attorney General Paul Morrison. Morrison then resigned in a sex scandal. Tiller’s legal team is angling to have the case dismissed or to have evidence suppressed, claiming, among other things, that Morrison's ex-lover persuaded him to file the charges.
A Tiller attorney spent most of this morning questioning a former Attorney General’s Office investigator who had helped convince a judge to allow an inquisition into Tiller’s Wichita clinic, as well as a Planned Parenthood Clinic in Overland Park.
The inquisition was begun by then District Attorney Kline, who is pro-life. After he was defeated by successor Paul Morrison in a bitter election contest, Morrison, a pro-abortion Democrat, reviewed the case and filed the 19 misdemeanor charges.
The case is now being prosecuted by the office of Attorney General Steve Six, who assumed the office after Morrison resigned.
The criminal charges contend that Tiller failed to secure a second opinion from an unaffiliated physician that late-term abortions were medically necessary before performing the procedures, as required by Kansas law. The criminal counts charge Tiller with securing a second opinion from a physician with whom he had been affiliated.
Of the 19 charges, 13 were related to late-term abortions performed on girls 16 years of age and younger.
In one case, the abortion recipient was 10 years old.
- Phil LaCerte
Kline takes stand in criminal proceeding against late-term abortionist
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