Forrest Allgood has a, shall we say, spotty record as a prosecutor. Four people he has put in prison for murder (two of them on death row) have later been exonerated. You would think that, with a record like this, he would tend to be a little more careful with the cases he decides to prosecute.
Well, if you thought that, you would be wrong.
He isnow prosecuting for murder
a teenager who suffered a miscarriage .
...Gibbs became pregnant aged 15, but lost the baby in December 2006 in a stillbirth when she was 36 weeks into the pregnancy. When prosecutors discovered that she had a cocaine habit – though there is no evidence that drug abuse had anything to do with the baby's death – they charged her with the "depraved-heart murder" of her child, which carries a mandatory life sentence.
Gibbs is the first woman in Mississippi to be charged with murder relating to the loss of her unborn baby. But her case is by no means isolated. Across the US more and more prosecutions are being brought that seek to turn pregnant women into criminals....
But, at the same time, a woman who ran over a bicyclist
twice willnot be charged .
...The Starkville woman and a friend were riding their bikes on Mississippi 50 near Pheba in Clay County when a vehicle driven by Robbie Norton, 44, of Cedarbluff, struck her, carrying her 165 feet. When Norton stopped and Morgan slid off the hood of her car, officials said Norton got back in the car and apparently tried to move it out of traffic, but ran over Morgan again.
On Wednesday, District Attorney Forrest Allgood broke the news: Norton will not face felony charges.
Norton could not be reached for comment.
Members of the cycling community don't accept the situation in Morgan's case, said Jackson bicyclist Bruce Alt.
"There's an element of negligence here," said Alt. "Shouldn't there be an element of responsibility?" (...)
Sure, that makes sense.
Onward and upward,
airforce
