Criminal,
California Courts of Appeal
Oct. 26, 2020
Mothers causing fetuses’ deaths through drugs lead to murder charges
Prosecutors say California law doesn’t exempt women from being charged with murder when their reckless, deliberate acts cause the death of their fetus.
Defense attorneys have asked a state appellate court to reopen the case of a Kings County woman sentenced to 11 years in prison on a plea deal after the district attorney alleged her methamphetamine use killed her full-term baby.
Her attorneys argued California's murder law doesn't apply to pregnant women whose use of drugs results in stillbirth.
The case is the second in three years in which a wo...
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