Indiana doubles down on stupidity

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When Purvi Patel showed up in the St. Joseph Regional Medical Center’s maternity ward, bleeding and showing a protruding umbilical cord, Dr. Kelly McGuire immediately knew something was wrong.
“There should have been a baby at the end of the umbilical cord,” he testified in an Indiana court room.
McGuire, who is obligated to report cases of suspected child abuse, called the police, he told PRI. Informed that officials were heading to her home, Patel told her doctors that she’d had a miscarriage and had left her stillborn fetus in a dumpster behind a shopping center. Still in his hospital scrubs, McGuire followed police cars to the scene and examined the fetus, which he pronounced dead on arrival. Patel was charged with child neglect, and later with killing her fetus, and on Monday she was sentenced to 20 consecutive years in prison.

not even sure what to say about this one

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...ailed-for-feticide-its-never-happened-before/

 

[Patranus]

California/Los Angeles prosecuted (resulting in a plea/no-contest) Holly Ashcraft under similar circumstance.

Do you hold the state of California/Los Angeles in the same respects?

 

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California/Los Angeles prosecuted (resulting in a plea/no-contest) Holly Ashcraft under similar circumstance.

Do you hold the state of California/Los Angeles in the same respects?

5 years probation in cali vs 30 years in PRISON in indiana

my thread title stands.

 

[Patranus]

5 years probation in cali vs 30 years in PRISON in indiana

my thread title stands.

How can you equate the punishment when one pleaded no-contest while the other was successfully prosecuted?

 

[MongGrel]

Is pretty much a case that has been ongoing awhile now.

I'm still not sure it's just a case the girl screwed up really myself.

I'll reiterate the part I grew up in Indiana and moved away a second time 25 years ago I guess.

 

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How can you equate the punishment when one pleaded no-contest while the other was successfully prosecuted?

i didn't consider them to be the same.

that's why i said vs not the same as.

indiana's law is the reason she didn't plead no contest.

what about that are you not getting?

 

[senseamp]

How can you equate the punishment when one pleaded no-contest while the other was successfully prosecuted?

So 30 years is just punishment for exercising your right to a trial by jury?