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Tayshea Aiwohi

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Charge:	Manslaughter
Sentence:	10 years probation
Year Convicted:	2004
Year Cleared:	2005
Location of Trial:	Hawaii
Result:	Judicially Exonerated (either after completion of sentence or while released on appeal)
Summary of Case:	"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 manslaghter based on her methamphetamine use during her pregnancy. She plead no contest on the condition she could appeal her conviction, and she was sententenced to 10 years probation. On November 30, 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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Age When Released:	32
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, 2008"
Information Location 2:	http://starbulletin.com/2005/11/30/news/story02.html
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Tayshea Aiwohi

Years Imprisoned:

Charge:

Manslaughter

Sentence:

10 years probation

Year Convicted:

2004

Year Cleared:

2005

Location of Trial:

Hawaii

Result:

Judicially Exonerated (either after completion of sentence or while released on appeal)

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."

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Was Perpetrator Found?

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Age When Released:

32

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

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"ice' addict cleared of killing newborn, By Debra Barayuga, Honolulu Star Bulletin, November 30, 2008"

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

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