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Judi Lynn

(160,527 posts) Tue Aug 23, 2016, 09:11 PM Aug 2016

No appeal in Indiana woman's overturned feticide conviction

Source: Associated Press

No appeal in Indiana woman's overturned feticide conviction

Rick Callahan, Associated Press

Updated 6:18 pm, Tuesday, August 23, 2016

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The attorney for an Indiana woman whose feticide conviction for a self-induced abortion was overturned said Tuesday he's pleased the state's attorney general decided not to appeal that ruling and hopes she's freed soon from prison.

A deadline for the attorney general's office to ask the Indiana Supreme Court to take up the state Court of Appeals ruling that reversed Purvi Patel's feticide conviction passed Monday without such a request. Patel's attorneys also did not ask the court to weigh in on the July ruling.

Patel appealed her 2015 feticide and child neglect convictions that resulted in a 20-year prison sentence. In its ruling, the appeals court vacated both of those convictions. But it found that Patel, 35, should be resentenced on a lower-level child neglect charge that carries a maximum three-year sentence.

Patel's attorney, Larry Marshall, said the reasoning laid out in the appeals court's unanimous ruling "was really unassailable, so I'm very pleased the state didn't drag things out just for the sake of dragging things out."

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/No-appeal-in-Indiana-woman-s-overturned-feticide-9179955.php

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No appeal in Indiana woman's overturned feticide conviction (Original Post) Judi Lynn Aug 2016 OP

Another Republican "law" where all exceptions will be accepted.... Old and In the Way Aug 2016 #1

now let us see how long it takes them to release her. max 3-year sentence on the other charge? niyad Aug 2016 #2

Shit, I live in her state. Glamrock Aug 2016 #3

the man is total slime, that is for sure. niyad Aug 2016 #4

Well, I gotta be honest. Glamrock Aug 2016 #5

let us hope that he is unemployed come jan. niyad Aug 2016 #6

At which point he will immediately begin preparing to run for the U.S. Senate in 2018. (eom) StevieM Aug 2016 #8

Man, ya just can't let a good feeling last huh? Glamrock Aug 2016 #9

Lol. Congrats, Glamrock! I feel very good about that Hortensis Aug 2016 #11

This is criminalizing abortion. She already sat in jail for 17 months! SunSeeker Aug 2016 #7

The fetus/baby came out alive. That's what the Hortensis Aug 2016 #12

They criminalized poverty by criminalizing a botched self-abortion. SunSeeker Aug 2016 #13

Well, it's a technical detail. Supposedly the 1-1/2 pound Hortensis Aug 2016 #14

It's not a baby, it's a fetus. SunSeeker Aug 2016 #15

"Position" noted. Hortensis Aug 2016 #16

I am hoping that after she is released from prison she will appeal the other charge as well. StevieM Aug 2016 #10

Old and In the Way

(37,540 posts)

1. Another Republican "law" where all exceptions will be accepted....

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Tue Aug 23, 2016, 09:24 PM

Aug 2016

How much does this bullshit law cost taxpayers? How many more cases won't be conrested by the State?

niyad

(113,302 posts)

2. now let us see how long it takes them to release her. max 3-year sentence on the other charge?

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Tue Aug 23, 2016, 09:42 PM

Aug 2016

time served, anyone?

Glamrock

(11,800 posts)

3. Shit, I live in her state.

Reply to niyad (Reply #2)

Tue Aug 23, 2016, 10:05 PM

Aug 2016

Gotta keep these crimnals locked up! I'll be afraid to walk out my door! The horror!

No seriously, I'm good with time served. Hell, just being sentenced to 20 years is punishment enough. Glad she'll be free soon.

P. S.
FUCKING PENCE!

niyad

(113,302 posts)

4. the man is total slime, that is for sure.

Reply to Glamrock (Reply #3)

Tue Aug 23, 2016, 10:06 PM

Aug 2016

Glamrock

(11,800 posts)

5. Well, I gotta be honest.

Reply to niyad (Reply #4)

Tue Aug 23, 2016, 10:10 PM

Aug 2016

Trump did make my America great again. That fucker will no longer be my Gov.!!!!!!!!!

niyad

(113,302 posts)

6. let us hope that he is unemployed come jan.

Reply to Glamrock (Reply #5)

Tue Aug 23, 2016, 10:19 PM

Aug 2016

StevieM

(10,500 posts)

8. At which point he will immediately begin preparing to run for the U.S. Senate in 2018. (eom)

Reply to niyad (Reply #6)

Tue Aug 23, 2016, 10:54 PM

Aug 2016

Glamrock

(11,800 posts)

9. Man, ya just can't let a good feeling last huh?

Reply to StevieM (Reply #8)

Tue Aug 23, 2016, 10:57 PM

Aug 2016

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

11. Lol. Congrats, Glamrock! I feel very good about that

Reply to Glamrock (Reply #9)

Wed Aug 24, 2016, 05:05 PM

Aug 2016

too, and as it happens, I don't think I've even driven through Indiana.

SunSeeker

(51,550 posts)

7. This is criminalizing abortion. She already sat in jail for 17 months!

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Tue Aug 23, 2016, 10:49 PM

Aug 2016

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

12. The fetus/baby came out alive. That's what the

Reply to SunSeeker (Reply #7)

Wed Aug 24, 2016, 05:10 PM

Aug 2016

sentence relates to -- the care she owed to a living infant. A botched abortion. Amateur.

SunSeeker

(51,550 posts)

13. They criminalized poverty by criminalizing a botched self-abortion.

Reply to Hortensis (Reply #12)

Wed Aug 24, 2016, 05:16 PM

Aug 2016

And sure, a fetus is alive until you abort it. That is hardly reason to criminalize abortion.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

14. Well, it's a technical detail. Supposedly the 1-1/2 pound

Reply to SunSeeker (Reply #13)

Wed Aug 24, 2016, 07:15 PM

Aug 2016

baby was just past the point of viability. I believe Pence is capable of great evil, and evil was unquestionably done by him and people like him here.

But at some point the lives of two people are involved, and we need to protect them both. We don't drop newborn premature babies in dumpsters instead of rushing them to the nearest hospital. This isn't a political position, it's a matter of the very strongest principle. If we can drop a 1-minute-old baby in a dumpster, why NOT a 2-day-old? It is okay if we choose to smother the child before that to make sure no one hears its tiny cries? You know, to avoid...possible embarrassment.

SunSeeker

(51,550 posts)

15. It's not a baby, it's a fetus.

Reply to Hortensis (Reply #14)

Wed Aug 24, 2016, 07:38 PM

Aug 2016

Please spare me the "tiny cries" forced birther rhetoric.

A woman should have a right to do whatever she wants with her body, even if her fetus is potentially viable.

If a woman chooses for her fetus not to go to term, that is up to her, not anyone else.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

16. "Position" noted.

Reply to SunSeeker (Reply #15)

Wed Aug 24, 2016, 07:46 PM

Aug 2016

StevieM

(10,500 posts)

10. I am hoping that after she is released from prison she will appeal the other charge as well.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Tue Aug 23, 2016, 11:00 PM

Aug 2016

I understand why she wouldn't want to right now. If she had then the state might have appealed the other charge she had originally been convicted of. It also might have affected the re-sentencing if she had gotten a right-wing judge.

I realize that Ms. Patel might want to just be done with the whole thing at this point. But it would be great to have the whole conviction tossed. In order to claim the baby was alive they used the widely discredited lung float test.

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