Lawyers for Marshae Jones — the woman who was charged with manslaughter after a bullet in her stomach killed her fetus — have filed a motion to dismiss
, have filed a motion in Alabama’s Jefferson County Circuit Court to have all charges against Jones dismissed.
“Using a flawed and twisted rationale, the State of Alabama has charged a new theory of criminal liability that does not lawfully exist,” Jones’ counsel wrote in the motion. Jones, 27, was five months pregnant when she got in a fight with a woman named Ebony Jamison, 23, outside of a Dollar General store in Pleasant Grove, a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama. Jamison shot Jones in the stomach, killing her fetus.
“While everyday Ms. Jones relives the most tragic event in her life, the loss of her baby, Marlaysia Jones, she is now being forced by the State to fight an unprecedented attack that threatens to leave her six-year-old daughter without her mother,” the motion says.Although the shooting sent Jones to the hospital, authorities alleged that she was the aggressor in the fight, which led to a grand jury indicting her on one count of manslaughter.
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