An Alabama prosecutor plans to announce whether or not she will pursue a manslaughter indictment against a woman who lost her pregnancy after she got into a fight and was shot in the stomach.
An Alabama prosecutor plans to announce on Wednesday whether or not she will pursue a manslaughter indictment against a woman who lost her pregnancy after she got into a fight and was shot in the stomach.
Washington can either pursue the manslaughter charge against Jones, reduce the charge or drop the case altogether. Jones was five months pregnant when she was shot during a fight in December in the parking lot of a Dollar General store in the Birmingham suburb of Pleasant Grove. The shooting caused Jones to suffer a miscarriage.
Shortly after Jones was shot, Pleasant Grove police Lt. Danny Reid told reporters that Jones"initiated and continued the fight which resulted in the death of her own unborn baby." "Using flawed and twisted rationale, the State of Alabama has charged a new theory of criminal liability that does not lawfully exist," reads a motion to dismiss filed on Jones' behalf."The State charges Ms. Jones with intending to cause the death of her unborn child by allegedly 'initiating a fight.' The State's theory ignores the law and ignores reason."
Washington spoke out on the case for the first time on Saturday, saying there had been"miscommunications" about her office's role in the indictment, according to The Birmingham News.
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