WALLER, Texas – Maria Rojas, the Houston area midwife indicted in June for practicing medicine without a license and performing illegal abortion, is set to be in Waller County court on Friday for a status check on her criminal case.
Rojas, 50, is accused of illegally operating a number of medical clinics in multiple counties in the Houston area.
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In a new 16-page court document filed by her attorney Nicole Hochglaube on Thursday, her defense is asking for a number of items of evidence related to the case.
This includes any offense reports, documents, videos, audio recordings, grand jury testimony, search warrants, clinic records, digital forensic records and surveillance records.
“We are missing all substantive discovery,” Hochglaube told KPRC 2 over the phone on Thursday.
Rojas was indicted on 15 felony counts including a new charge of killing an unborn child.
Her arrest was made in March, the first-of-its-kind since Texas enacted its near total abortion ban.
The Texas Attorney General’s Office had announced the arrest of Rojas and two of the workers at her clinics, Jose Ley and Dr. Rubildo Labinino Matos.
Both Ley and Matos have not yet been indicted.
In March, Rojas appeared before a Waller County judge for a hearing on a temporary injunction to keep her clinics closed.
For more than an hour, Rojas invoked her Fifth Amendment right on the stand as a prosecutor from the AG’s office asked a series of questions.
The judge ultimately agreed with the AG’s office to shut down Rojas’ clinics.
Rojas’ attorney filed an appeal with the Texas Supreme Court. That case is still pending.