Jury Deadlocked in Breast Milk Meth Poisoning Trial (California)
CORONA, Calif. — A judge declared a mistrial Thursday after jurors deadlocked in the case of a woman accused of killing her baby by nursing with methamphetamine-laced breast milk.
The jury stalemated 6-6 in the murder case against Amy Leanne Prien, said Ingrid Wyatt, spokeswoman for the Riverside County district attorney's office.
Prien, who is currently serving a 10-year sentence for felony child endangerment, would have faced 15 years to life if she had been convicted. The jury got the case June 15 after a 2 1/2-month trial.
The district attorney's office has until July 11 to decide on retrying the case, which began when Prien was arrested in January 2002 and was charged with murdering 3-month-old Jacob Wesley Smith.
Prien was convicted of second-degree murder in 2003, but an appeals court overturned the conviction in September, citing flawed jury instructions from the trial judge.
The prosecution was believed to be the first of its kind in California.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,200635,00.html
posted by Kim | 4:52 PM
2 Comments:
I heard that the father put his stash in the milk bottle and the mother fed her baby unawhere of it's contents. She probably thinks she did poison the child, but that's not the case.
Yes, I think that is probably the case, too. I think she was high and wasn't paying attention. I read the coroner said the levels in the baby's body were more than enough to kill an adult. I don't think that the baby could've injested that much from breastfeeding. Also, is it even possible to regularly breastfeed while on meth? I am curious.
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