Criminal
May 21, 2021
Murder charges over stillbirth are dismissed
The Kings County judge did not rule on applicability of the murder statute to women who have a stillbirth, but found the prosecutors didn’t establish the implied malice element of the murder statute to the defendant, whose baby was born dead after she had taken methamphetamine.
Kings County prosecutors no longer have a murder case against a woman they accused of killing her baby by consuming methamphetamine in the days leading up to his stillbirth after a judge granted her motion to dismiss the murder charge Thursday.
The decision from Superior Court Judge Shane S. Burns ended Chelsea Becker's 19-month legal battle that went to the California Supreme Court and caught the attention of the former attorney g...
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