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Criminal

Aug. 10, 2020

AG opposes Kings County DA charging female meth addict with murder in her stillborn child’s death

Kings County District Attorney Keith L. Fagundes said he never had the chance to brief the Department of Justice on how the law applies to the specific facts of the case before the AG’s amicus brief was filed.

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed an amicus brief Friday supporting a writ of prohibition petition to end the prosecution of a Kings County woman accused of murdering her stillborn child by taking methamphetamine.

It's the first time in attorney Roger T. Nuttall's nearly five-decade career that the attorney general filed a brief supporting his defense petition, the attorney, with the Law Office of Nuttall & Coleman, ...

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