After eight years of prosecuting Sandra Merritt, the California Attorney General's office agreed to a plea deal to end this criminal case with no prison time and no fines for her role in the undercover journalism and videos that exposed Planned Parenthood's trade in aborted baby body parts.

Before this unprecedented case, the State of California had never criminally prosecuted undercover journalists for surreptitious recordings made in the public interest. Yet, this courageous grandmother was charged with 16 felonies and faced more than 10 years in prison for shining a light on the abortion industry's profit from illegal organ harvesting from aborted babies.

Liberty Counsel has defended Merritt for more than a decade against California's and Planned Parenthood's two-pronged strategy of criminal indictments and a civil lawsuit. The negotiated plea agreement includes the state dropping all remaining felony counts.