Lawyers seek to get manslaughter charge dropped against Alabama woman who lost fetus after being shot.
Attorneys for an Alabama woman facing a manslaughter count in the miscarriage of her fetus that resulted from being shot during a fight filed court papers seeking to get the charge tossed, calling the indictment"completely unreasonable and unjust.""Using flawed and twisted rationale, the State of Alabama has charged a new theory of criminal liability that does not lawfully exist," according to legal papers filed on Jones' behalf."The State charges Ms.
The woman who allegedly shot Jones, Ebony Jemison, 23, was initially charged with manslaughter, but a grand jury declined to indict her after determining she shot Jones in self-defense, prosecutors said. The same grand jury indicted Jones on one count of manslaughter."It is simply unconscionable to prosecute a shooting victim for losing her baby as the result of unforeseeable injury," Jones' attorneys from the Birmingham lawfirm White Arnold & Dowd said in a statement Monday.
A Jefferson County grand jury indicted Jones on May 1 after finding she"intentionally" caused the death of her unborn child by"initiating" the fight with Jemison on Dec. 4 knowing she was five months pregnant.In a joint statement, Planned Parenthood and Planned Parenthood Southeast said that the case represented the"criminalization of black women" and the refusal to give them justice.
Jefferson County Bessemer Cutoff District Attorney Lynniece Washington spoke out on the case for the first time on Saturday, saying there had been"miscommunications" about her office's role in the indictment, according to The Birmingham News.
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