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Grand Jury Declines to Indict Ohio Woman Who Miscarried at Home (www.nytimes.com)

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 2 years ago (3 children)

If I was an Ohioan I'd be rallying against the DA who brought the charges at all. These laws are inhumane.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

DA wanted to drop it.

In a lengthy statement outlining the case and prosecution timeline, Dennis Watkins, the Trumbull County prosecutor, said that his office had found that Ms. Watts had not violated the law as claimed in the initial compliant and that it disagreed with a lower court’s application of the law after interviewing witnesses “and researching and applying the law.”

Last month, Mr. Watkins said his office was “duty bound” to follow Ohio law and move forward with a grand jury proceeding after Judge Terry Ivanchak of Municipal Court found probable cause for the grand jury review to proceed.

[–] AnneBonny 12 points 2 years ago

wtf

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