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Fetus theft conviction upheld

BOSTON — The Massachusetts Supreme Court upheld the jury’s conviction of a woman who killed a pregnant woman and cut her baby out of her to keep as her own, finding the convictions for first-degree murder, “extreme atrocity” and other crimes would not likely have changed if defendant’s counsel had called a cell phone expert on her behalf.

Read the ruling here.

Categories / Appeals, Briefs, Criminal, Government, Personal Injury

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