Monday, February 23, 2015

Lacey Spears; New YorK: Journal News reports that, "Prosecutors could rest their case as early as Tuesday in the murder trial of Lacey Spears, who is accused of poisoning her 5-year-old son with salt through the boy's feeding tube."


STORY: "Lacey Spears trial: Alabama doc cites earlier salt spike,"  by reporter Lee Higgins, published by the  Journal News  on February 23, 2015.

SUB-HEADING: "Prosecutors could rest their case as early as Tuesday in the murder trial of Lacey Spears, who is accused of poisoning her 5-year-old son with salt through the boy's feeding tube."

GIST: "When Garnett Spears was airlifted Feb. 11, 2009 to Children's Hospital of Alabama with extremely high sodium levels in his bloodstream, the roughly two-and-a-half month old was "so extremely dehydrated, he was in shock," a doctor testified Monday.........His testimony came on the 12th day of 27-year-old Lacey Spears's trial on charges of second-degree murder and first-degree manslaughter in her son's death. She is is accused of poisoning the 5-year-old with salt through his feeding tube; he died Jan. 22, 2014 at Westchester Medical Center after initially being treated at Good Samaritan Hospital in Nyack. Prosecutors have said they could rest their case as early as Tuesday."

The entire story can be  found at:

http://www.mozaaf.com/post/404841

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