Liberty Counsel Asks CA High Court To Dismiss Sandra Merritt Criminal Case

In a recent precedent set by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Project Veritas v. Schmidt, Oregon’s similar ban on surreptitious recordings of conversations was determined to be a content-based restriction infringing on free speech. California’s Penal Code section 632(a) is nearly identical to Oregon’s unconstitutional statute. It should suffer the same fate and Merritt’s case should be dismissed.

Liberty Counsel Founder and Chairman Mat Staver said, “The criminal charges are based on an unconstitutional recording law. The decision from the Ninth Circuit declaring that Oregon’s recording law is unconstitutional justifies dismissing the remaining criminal counts against Sandra Merritt.”