A California appeals court has ruled prosecutors can move forward with a murder case brought against a woman whose infant died after she gave birth.
A California appeals court has ruled that prosecutors can move forward with a murder case brought against an Oceanside woman whose infant died after she gave birth by herself in her apartment.
Carpenter’s attorneys filed the appeal, asking the higher court to dismiss the charges. They argued that prosecuting her was unlawful, because the charges stemmed from actions she took and decisions she made during her pregnancy. She cut the baby’s umbilical cord, but did not clamp it, according to court documents. She tried to stop the bleeding by putting a piece of tape over the stump, but the bleeding persisted.
The doctor who performed the autopsy testified at Carpenter’s preliminary hearing that the blood loss from the umbilical stump was “very substantial and contributed to the death of the baby.”
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