"The appeal of a Granger woman convicted of feticide and neglect of a dependent will soon go to oral arguments. In July 2013, Purvi Patel was about 25 weeks
along in her pregnancy when she took abortion inducing pills. She placed
the 20-inch long infant in a dumpster behind her parent's restaurant
and went to the emergency room. A jury found her guilty of feticide and neglect
of a dependent resulting in death after experts testified the infant
drew breath and claiming Patel failed to get the medical assistance. Patel's attorneys argue in the appeal that the prosecution relied on insufficient evidence. Oral arguments are scheduled for May 23 before
the Indiana Supreme Court for broadcasting purposes, the case remains at
the appellate level."
http://www.wndu.com/content/news/Date-set-for-Purvi-Patels-appeal-to-Indiana-Supreme-Court-374480201.htmlSee Wikipedia report at the link below: "Purvi Patel (born c. 1982) is an Indian American sentenced to 20 years in prison in Indiana for feticide and child neglect after her pregnancy ended and the baby/fetus was found in a dumpster.[1] Her case has caused international controversy about the prosecution of pregnant women accused of intentionally or recklessly causing miscarriages or stillbirth.[2][3] She is the first woman in the United States to be charged, convicted, and sentenced on a feticide charge.[4] This has also been compared to the prosecution of Bei Bei Shuai under similar circumstances.[4] In 2013, Patel underwent hospital treatment after claiming to have had a miscarriage.[2] She had become pregnant after an affair with a co-worker, and she feared revealing her pre-marital pregnancy to her conservative Hindu family.[5] Patel claimed that after the miscarriage she placed the stillborn fetus into the garbage and checked herself into a hospital in South Bend, Indiana seeking medical attention for heavy bleeding.[1] Dr. Kelly McGuire said he rushed to meet the police at the dumpsters near the Target in Mishawaka, the place where he said Purvi Patel had told doctors she left the fetus. The doctor believed there was a chance the fetus was alive. He testified the umbilical cord protruding from the mother looked healthy. The doctor testified on Tuesday about the night he examined the body of the fetus in the Target parking lot after police found the fetus in a plastic bag in a dumpster behind Moe's Southwesrt Grill, which her family owned, and where Patel worked. [6] The prosecution alleged that the miscarriage had been caused by an abortifacient per her documented text messages exchanged with her friend, even though doctors found no trace of the drugs in her body.[2] Prosecutors charged Patel with feticide for allegedly inducing an abortion, as the pills in question had been purchased online overseas, which is illegal in the United States and a majority of other developed countries.[1] Indiana's law allows for women to be convicted of attempting to end a pregnancy.[1] They also charged her with child neglect after claiming that the fetus had been born alive but was then left to die.[1 The defense pathologist testified that the 23 or 24 week fetus was stillborn, with lungs insufficiently developed to breathe, while the prosecution pathologist testified that the fetus was at 25 to 30 weeks and was born alive.[1] The prosecutors used a widely discredited lung float test to determine whether the fetus took a breath after birth.[7] The procedure tests the buoyancy of the lungs in the belief that lungs that float suggest that the fetus took a breath, and the lungs in this case did float.[7] Forensic experts discredit the use of such a test in criminal proceedings because of the number of false positives on record.[8] The jury in Patel's case determined the fetus had been alive and found Patel guilty of child neglect.[7] On April 22, 2015, Patel filed an appeal to the ruling. Her lawyers, headed by Lawrence C. Marshall, who is working pro bono, will be challenging the feticide charge and the lung float test evidence."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purvi_Patel
