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He Gets Life, She Gets Off

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That's the title of Rick Casey's latest Houston Chronicle column.  LINK Maybe a Lufkin jury believed teenager Erica Basoria when she told them she had asked her boyfriend to stand on her abdomen to abort the twins she was carrying in May 2004. Maybe the jury didn't believe her. Maybe they believed the prosecutor's assertion that she wanted the babies and was covering for her boyfriend. Under a Texas law passed the year before and now before the Court of Criminal Appeals, it doesn't matter. Either way, Jerry Flores, who was an 18-year-old high school senior at the time (she was a sophomore), is serving a life sentence for capital murder.   It could have been worse. Prosecutors did not seek the death penalty, so conviction automatically meant a life sentence...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 06, 2008 (boomark / email).