Conviction in killing of pregnant woman
Baltimore County jurors needed less than an hour yesterday to convict a married man Parkville for the murder of a pregnant woman and the baby to be born of a couple’s Parking Centre in June - for the first time, Maryland’s fetal homicide Act cargo was someone in the death of an unborn child.
David L. Miller, 25, suspended his head, as the culprits were delivered yesterday afternoon to read.
Across the courtroom, friends and members of Elizabeth Walters weggeputzt silent tears and hugged them.
The father of the victim, Don Walters, reached back and squeezed out the hand of the daughter of one of his closest friends - a woman who has had contact with Liz Walters in a larger apartment in Baltimore, so that the baby had her own room.
Miller was for first-degree murder for the murder of a pregnant woman, but also attempted murder in the first degree rotation for the work of her best friend.
The woman, Heather Lowe, the defendant Walters Parkville home June 11, so that pregnant women can try to talk with him on the baby.
“There is no place in this society to a person who remains something like this - no place - two innocent women and a baby,” Don Walters of Rosedale said outside the courthouse yesterday afternoon.
Prosecutors, you will be asked Baltimore County Circuit Judge Dana M. Miller Levitz game of life in prison without the possibility of being put to the test at a hearing in July.
Defender Alvin Alston said, he wondered about something less.
A State Medical Examiner and Walters’ using birth testified that she was in possession of 32 weeks, as well as in their pregnancy. A full-term pregnancy lasts 40 weeks.
Baltimore County State’s Attorney Scott D. Shell Berger, the prosecution case, said, it offered a perfect opportunity, the state of 2 1 / 2 years fetal homicide law.
“Liz has been so far in her pregnancy and, as importantly, the defendant knew she was pregnant,” he said in an interview after the fall packed. “Frankly, the topic was for the murder of pregnancy.”
Several other countries have adopted similar laws, which in Maryland in October 2005.
In the best known, the use of such a law, prosecutors in the State of California charged Scott Peterson 2002 on the death of his wife Laci and their unborn son in Modesto, California, a month before because of birth.
Laci Peterson’s mother, Sharon Rocha, written testimony before the Senate committee, Maryland, as it was considering a bill similar to the federal law, which, on behalf of Laci Peterson and the unborn child she had planned for name Conner.
Scott Peterson was sentenced to death for the murders. In Maryland’s fetal murder statute, the death of an unborn child can be considered as an aggravating factor, the case of a murder in the death penalty.
Shell in Berger said that the issue of the rights of abortion, which was raised, if the law was adopted by the Maryland legislature, was not a factor in his decision on the roster of charges against Miller.
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