‘A disturbing and heartbreaking case’: Charges dropped against Alabama woman who lost fetus in shooting

Alabama prosecutors on Wednesday dropped charges against a woman who lost her unborn baby in her fifth month of pregnancy when she was shot during an altercation, a case that has brought national attention to the state’s legal protection for fetuses.

But Lynneice Washington, the district attorney for the Bessemer division of Jefferson County, announced that she was dismissing the case and that no further legal action would be brought. Washington, who announced on Friday that she was reviewing the case, said grand jury members made “what they believed to be a reasonable decision,” believing someone needed to be held accountable for the death of the fetus.

“It is the appropriate decision, both for our client and for the state of Alabama,” White said in a statement. White had asked a judge to throw out the manslaughter charge, calling the state’s legal rationale “flawed and twisted” and the case unsupported by the law. A judge was scheduled to consider the motion on Tuesday.

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And why did she start a fight with someone while pregnant? Is she retarded?

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