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Georgia judge granted a bond of just $1 for a murder charge faced by a woman accused by police of taking pills to induce an illegal abortion.
“I think that charge is extremely problematic,” Superior Court Judge Steven Blackerby said Monday during a bond hearing for $1, according to The New York Times. “That is going to be a hard charge to convict upon.”
Blackerby set a total $2,001 bond for Moore, who spent nearly three weeks jailed in coastal Camden County. In addition to $1 for the murder charge, the judge ordered $1,000 bond amounts for each of two drug charges Moore faces.
Local police took the 31-year-old Moore into custody March 4 using an arrest warrant with language that echoes a Georgia law banning abortions after embryonic cardiac activity can be detected. That’s generally at about six weeks’ gestation – before many women know they’re pregnant.
Moore’s case is one of the first in Georgia of a woman being charged for terminating a pregnancy since the law was adopted in 2019.
The judge’s $1 bond raises questions about how a murder case against Moore might proceed.
District Attorney Keith Higgins of the Brunswick Judicial Circuit didn’t oppose the bond amount in court Monday and told the judge that police didn’t consult his office before they charged Moore, according to reports by The New York Times and the Georgia news website The Current.
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Kingsland police charged Alexia Moore with malice murder as well as possession of a controlled substance and dangerous drug, according to police records, based on an investigator’s interrogation of Moore in her hospital exam room, where on Dec. 30 she was admitted in extreme pain and her infant was delivered and died.
At a scheduled bond hearing, both DA Keith Higgins and Moore’s defense lawyer Kelly Turner pushed back on any charge linked to Georgia’s restrictive law called the LIFE Act, which makes abortion illegal after fetal cardiac activity can be detected, generally around six weeks of pregnancy.
Any malice murder charge against Moore is problematic "on a factual and merit basis," Higgins told the judge, who concurred with Turner that Georgia case law prevents criminalizing a mother who induces an abortion herself, or miscarries.
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“I think that charge is extremely problematic,” Superior Court Judge Steven Blackerby said Monday during a bond hearing for $1, according to The New York Times. “That is going to be a hard charge to convict upon.”
Blackerby set a total $2,001 bond for Moore, who spent nearly three weeks jailed in coastal Camden County. In addition to $1 for the murder charge, the judge ordered $1,000 bond amounts for each of two drug charges Moore faces.
Local police took the 31-year-old Moore into custody March 4 using an arrest warrant with language that echoes a Georgia law banning abortions after embryonic cardiac activity can be detected. That’s generally at about six weeks’ gestation – before many women know they’re pregnant.
Moore’s case is one of the first in Georgia of a woman being charged for terminating a pregnancy since the law was adopted in 2019.
The judge’s $1 bond raises questions about how a murder case against Moore might proceed.
District Attorney Keith Higgins of the Brunswick Judicial Circuit didn’t oppose the bond amount in court Monday and told the judge that police didn’t consult his office before they charged Moore, according to reports by The New York Times and the Georgia news website The Current.
Judge grants $1 murder bond for woman accused of using pills to induce abortion
A Georgia judge has granted a bond of just $1 for a murder charge faced by a woman accused by police of taking pills to induce an illegal abortion.
apnews.com
Kingsland police charged Alexia Moore with malice murder as well as possession of a controlled substance and dangerous drug, according to police records, based on an investigator’s interrogation of Moore in her hospital exam room, where on Dec. 30 she was admitted in extreme pain and her infant was delivered and died.
At a scheduled bond hearing, both DA Keith Higgins and Moore’s defense lawyer Kelly Turner pushed back on any charge linked to Georgia’s restrictive law called the LIFE Act, which makes abortion illegal after fetal cardiac activity can be detected, generally around six weeks of pregnancy.
Any malice murder charge against Moore is problematic "on a factual and merit basis," Higgins told the judge, who concurred with Turner that Georgia case law prevents criminalizing a mother who induces an abortion herself, or miscarries.
Judge, expressing doubt on abortion murder charge, grants bond to Georgia mother
A Coastal Georgia district attorney and a Superior Court judge said Monday they were doubtful that enough evidence exists to move forward with a malice murder charge against a 31-year-old Camden County mother arrested earlier this month for an alleged illegal abortion, paving the way for a...
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