The final bogus criminal charge against David Daleiden has been dismissed and his case completely expunged. It’s the final step in a victory for the pro-life advocate who exposed Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry for selling the body parts of aborted babies.
The dismissal ends a nearly decade-long Democrat-led prosecution launched to silence his undercover videos that exposed Planned Parenthood’s grisly aborted baby parts trade.
Daleiden, founder and president of the Center for Medical Progress, announced the victory Thursday on X.
“As promised, the final charge has been DISMISSED and the case completely expunged—after a couple months’ administrative delay, and a truly bizarre last-minute ‘April Fool’s’ attempt by @PPFA and @NatAbortionFed to overturn the State’s agreement,” he wrote.
The dismissal fulfills the terms of a January 2025 settlement in which California dropped all charges against Daleiden and undercover reporter Sandra Merritt. The agreement required no jail time, no fines, no admission of wrongdoing and no probation.
In exchange, the pair entered a “no contest” plea to a single misdemeanor video-recording charge, which was to be entered as a judgment in six to 12 months, then converted to a “not guilty” plea, dismissed and expunged.
Seven of the original 14 charges had previously been dismissed for lack of probable cause.
The prosecution began under then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris after Daleiden’s 2015 videos were released. In the January 2025 statement marking the initial settlement, Daleiden described the case as political lawfare.
“After enduring 9 years of weaponized political prosecution, putting an end to the lawfare launched by Kamala Harris is a huge victory for my investigative reporting and for the public’s right to know the truth about Planned Parenthood’s sale of aborted baby body parts. Now we all must get to work to protect families and infants from the criminal abortion-industrial complex,” he said.
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