Follow-up -- the Indiana AG told a bunch of lies about the doctor who did the abortion. 10-Year-Old’s Abortion Doc Sends Cease and Desist Letter to Indiana AG https://www.thedailybeast.com/dr-ca...e-and-desist-letter-to-indiana-ag-todd-rokita The obstetrician-gynecologist who performed an abortion on an out-of-state 10-year-old rape victim has a clear message for Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita: stop making “misleading” statements or face legal consequences. Dr. Caitlin Bernard’s attorney sent Rokita a cease and desist letter Friday after he dragged her name through the mud, claiming without evidence that she didn’t report the procedure as required by law. Records from the state’s Department of Health quickly exonerated Bernard, showing she had followed protocol. Bernard’s lawyer, Kathleen DeLaney, called Rokita statements “false,” with the potential to “incite harassment or violence” from the public against the doctor. DeLaney wrote that Rokita continued to disparage Bernard after the records were released, but couldn’t point to any statement in particular when The Daily Beast followed up. Read it at NPR
Now moving to sue for defamation... Doctor who provided abortion to 10-year-old girl moves to sue attorney general for defamation https://thehill.com/homenews/wire/3...moves-to-sue-attorney-general-for-defamation/
This won’t ever stop and why abortion is a private matter… https://www.cleveland.com/court-jus...-national-debate-over-ohios-abortion-law.html
So the way I am reading this and related articles is that the defense attorney for the rapist is attempting to push that DNA evidence taken from fetuses aborted out of state cannot be introduced as evidence in the trial in Ohio to show that the rapist had sex with a minor -- because the abortion is illegal under Ohio law.
Yeah, he’ll get exactly nowhere with that bullshit. The point is this stuff will just keep building and building.
I mean it's kind of clever. Evidence acquired by the prosecution through illegal or improper means is inadmissible. I do wonder what the precedence for illegal/improper evidence across states is like though. Ocho, where u at?
According to court records and testimony from Columbus police Det. Jeffrey Huhn, Fuentes allegedly confessed to sexually assaulting the girl on at least two occasions between January and May 12. The two charges of rape in the indictment relate to those two incidents. Under Ohio law the rape alone is possible life in prison with parole possible in 15 years. Does not matter if she is pregnant or not but the fact that an abortion clearly occurred and he admitted to raping her, the defense will not gain anything even making an argument about abortions being illegal in Ohio. Also they are legal in Indiana so moot point.
well, that's what i'm wondering. In a hypothetical case where this was different (no admission), how do states handle evidence collection that may be legal in one state but not another? Do they treat it as "this shit landed in our lap, so not our problem" as they would hacker dumps?