The Planned Parenthood Video Scandal May Be Over

The propensity of grand jurors to do as suggested was crystallized by Sol Wachtler, a former chief judge of the New York Court of Appeals, who was famously quoted as saying a prosecutor could get a ham sandwich indicted.

A Houston grand jury investigating Planned Parenthood over allegations of illegal fetal tissue sales apparently got its lunch order mixed up. In a criminal probe initiated by abortion foes, the panel sent prosecutors an indictment in boomerang form, charging instead the conservative activists who arranged to make undercover videos of clinic employees.

Yes, it's confusing. Making matters more complicated, one undercover videographer faces a charge of tampering with a government record. (To wit: fabricating a driver's license used in the sting.) That infraction isn't unknown to teenagers of various generations who have sought illicit beverages. This one, however, could get the activist years in prison.