Kansas High Court Delays Grand Jury Probe
LifeNews.Com is reporting that the Kansas Supreme Court has granted George Tiller a temporary stay in the convening of a grand jury with a charge to investigate his notorious late-term abortuary.
Under a rather unique statute in that state, Kansas citizens can petition a court to demand the sitting of a grand jury. The law requires the filing of 2,449 signatures on a petition; Kansans for Life offered up almost 7000. Once petitions are certified, the law requires a grand jury to be summoned within 60 days; Tiller’s was supposed to be seated today.
Tiller’s lawyers have been scrambling to find a way to stop the probe. They went first to a district judge, demanding that he bar the petitions. Judge Paul Buchanan refused, finding that citizens had correctly followed the law.
His lawyers then went to the friendlier Supreme Court – which issued a restraining order yesterday, saying that it needed more time to consider the legal arguments raised by Tiller’s legal team. Chief Justice Kay McFarland wrote that the court reached its decision based upon the “virtue of the unique circumstances of this case and to allow full consideration of [Tiller’s] petition.”
In other words, the chief justice is suggesting that, while the Kansas law empowering citizens to convene a grand jury in pursuit of justice is valid and constitutional – because this petition involves abortion and the “special” person of George Tiller, the Supreme Court ought provide “special” consideration. This appears to be a despicable double-standard, in which the Abortion Industry is held to a different standard of law than the rest of us.
Mary Kay Culp of Kansans for Life is quoted as saying, “We don’t expect a lot out of this court when it comes to this issue, so I’m not overly surprised.”
One of Tiller’s attorneys told a Kansas paper that he expected it could take more than a year for the state Supreme Court to resolve all the issues he and his colleagues have raised.
Posted at 10/30/2007 06:11:00 AM Link to this article 
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Along with supporting this in prayer, let's not forget our first goal for this situation, and that is to be praying for Dr. Tiller's conversion. If enough emphasis is placed on his conversion, not only would his abortion clinic close, but his soul would be open to receiving Christ. He would end up being a powerful evangelizer who believes in the sanctity of life. Imagine George Tiller evangelizing for life! May God remove the scales from his eyes and heal his wounded heart, mind, and soul that he may accept Christ in His fullness and rejoice in the Light of His Love. We ask this is Jesus name. Amen.
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