An injustice far worse than Paris
Holly Ashcraft is the USC student who has not once, but twice discarded her newborn babies. In both cases, she claims, the infants were stillborn, although in the first there's no way to know, as the baby's body was never found, and in the second, the coroner ruled otherwise.
Not that any of this evidence matters. Ashcraft's family hired her the service of slick lawyer to the stars Mark Geragos (of Michael Jackson and Scott Peterson fame), and Geragos has succeeded in getting his client off the hook. First he was able to persuade a judge to knock down the charge of murder to manslaughter, and now he's been able to knock out the manslaughter charge on a bizarre technicality.
Since, under California law, charges cannot be filed on the same killing more than twice, this most likely means that Ashcraft will walk ... something neither of her two children ever got a chance to do.
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