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April 29, 2015

Indiana: Purvi Patel's Attorneys Appeal 20-Year Sentence for "Feticide" 
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Attorneys for an Indiana woman sentenced last month to 20 years in
prison for what she says was a miscarriage have filed an appeal. Purvi
Patel was convicted of both feticide and felony neglect after she
arrived at a hospital, bleeding, and later acknowledged disposing of her
stillborn fetus in a dumpster. Prosecutors accused her of taking
abortion-inducing pills, even though no such drugs were found in her
system, and used a discredited "float test" to argue the fetus was born
alive.