Lawyers for Marsha Jones, the Alabama woman charged with manslaughter after her unborn child was shot and killed in utero, filed a motion to disregard the case on Monday morning, calling the indictment against her “unreasonable, unfounded, and unjust.” High-profile Alabama protection lawyer Mark White took up Jones’ case, according to the Bernard Law Montgomery Advertiser, and announced on Monday.
“It is truly unconscionable to prosecute a taking pictures victim for dropping her toddler because of an unforeseeable [sic] harm,” stated White, of White, Arnold & Dowd, the firm representing Jones. “The prices towards Marshae are based totally on a wrong and contorted principle of crook liability that, in reality, no longer exists under the regulation.” White has requested that the manslaughter charge against opposition to Jones be permanently disregarded.
Police arrested Jones the ultimate week after a Jefferson County grand jury indicted her in April for manslaughter in the death of her unborn daughter. The 27-year-old was shot by another lady, 23-12 months-old Ebony Jemison, after the two were involved in a a n fit a Dollar General parking lot last December. Speaking to BuzzFeed last week, Jemison stated she fired her gun as a “caution shot” while a brawl broke out between Jones and Jemison and their respective buddy businesses. She fired her gun closer to the floor, she said, and claimed she didn’t recognize that Jones had been shot until police later showed up at her door.
