Tayshea Aiwohi

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Charge:	Manslaughter
Sentence:	10 years probation
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Year Crime:	2001
Year Convicted:	2004
Year Cleared:	2005
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Hawaii
County or Region of Crime:	Honolulu
City of Crime:	Honolulu
Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"Tayshea Aiwohi was wrongly convicted in June 2004 of manslaughter in the 2001 death of her child two days after being born. His cause of death was ruled to be methamphetamine poisoning. She was charged with manslaughter based on her methamphetamine use during her pregnancy. She plead no contest on the condition she could appeal her conviction, and she was sentenced to 10 years probation. On November 29, 2005 the Hawaiian Supreme Court overturned her conviction, ruling that she had not committed a crime by her behavior prior to her child's birth, because a fetus is not a person, and therefore she could not have committed manslaughter, which only behavior against a person that is related to that person's death."
Conviction Caused By:	Erroneous pretrial ruling by the trial judge that she could be prosecuted for manslaghter because her fetus was a person.
Innocence Proved By:	"On November 30, 2005 the Hawaiian Supreme Court overturned her conviction, ruling that she had not committed a crime."
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Sex:	Female
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"State of Hawaii v. Tayshea Aiwohi, 123 P.3d 1210 (Hawaii 11-29-2005). "
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Information Source 2:	"ice' addict cleared of killing newborn, By Debra Barayuga, Honolulu Star Bulletin, November 30, 2005"
Information Location 2:	http://starbulletin.com/2005/11/30/news/story02.html
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Tayshea Aiwohi

Charge:

Manslaughter

Sentence:

10 years probation

Years Imprisoned:

Year Crime:

2001

Year Convicted:

2004

Year Cleared:

2005

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Hawaii

County or Region of Crime:

Honolulu

City of Crime:

Honolulu

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Erroneous pretrial ruling by the trial judge that she could be prosecuted for manslaghter because her fetus was a person.

Innocence Proved By:

"On November 30, 2005 the Hawaiian Supreme Court overturned her conviction, ruling that she had not committed a crime."

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Female

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"State of Hawaii v. Tayshea Aiwohi, 123 P.3d 1210 (Hawaii 11-29-2005). "

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Information Source 2:

"ice' addict cleared of killing newborn, By Debra Barayuga, Honolulu Star Bulletin, November 30, 2005"

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http://starbulletin.com/2005/11/30/news/story02.html

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