taximama24
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"But let`s just say for a minute, a teenage girl gives birth to a baby is exhausted, a baby takes a breath and then dies and teenage girl then does not know baby was ever alive. Isn`t that plausible?"
If the defense wanted to go with that they would need to have a medical professional provide the statistics for how often that happens to let the jurors decide if they think that plausibly happened (for instance the incidence of SIDS is 0.05%...so, not very likely that was the case). In the Ryan Widmer case, the defense tried something similar, said the wife could have had narcolepsy and fallen asleep in the bathtub and drowned on her own. Chance of that happening would have been very small and didn't result in enough reasonable doubt in the jury to ultimately get the not guilty verdict.
If the defense wanted to go with that they would need to have a medical professional provide the statistics for how often that happens to let the jurors decide if they think that plausibly happened (for instance the incidence of SIDS is 0.05%...so, not very likely that was the case). In the Ryan Widmer case, the defense tried something similar, said the wife could have had narcolepsy and fallen asleep in the bathtub and drowned on her own. Chance of that happening would have been very small and didn't result in enough reasonable doubt in the jury to ultimately get the not guilty verdict.