Woman whose feticide conviction overturned to be released
Source: Associated Press
Woman whose feticide conviction overturned to be released
Updated 6:10 pm, Wednesday, August 31, 2016
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana woman whose feticide conviction for a self-induced abortion was overturned should be released from prison immediately, a judge said Wednesday, after she was resentenced to less time than she already has served behind bars.
In a brief ruling, St. Joseph Superior Court Judge Elizabeth C. Hurley also said a sentence of 18 months for Purvi Patel was appropriate for a felony charge of neglect of a dependent and that Patel does not have to be placed on parole. A Department of Corrections spokesman said he did not know how soon Patel would be released.
Wednesday's ruling comes less than two months after the Indiana Court of Appeals overturned Patel's 2015 conviction — and 20 year prison sentence — on a charge of killing her premature infant by taking abortion-inducing drugs, saying that the state's law was not intended to be used "to prosecute women for their own abortions."
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Woman-gets-18-months-after-feticide-conviction-9196040.php
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