Judge dismisses Rennie Gibbs’ depraved heart murder case
A judge has dismissed murder charges against a Columbus resident who was charged with depraved heart murder after the 2006 stillborn death of her child.
Lowndes County Circuit Court Judge Jim Kitchens issued his ruling Wednesday in the case against 24-year-old Rennie Gibbs.
Gibbs case intersects divisive, difficult issues
Rennie Gibbs’s daughter, Samiya, was a month premature when she simultaneously entered the world and left it, never taking a breath. To experts who later examined the medical record, the stillborn infant’s most likely cause of death was also the most obvious: the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck.
Slimantics: Gibbs case is about abortion, not murder
It has been 41 years since the landmark Supreme Court Roe v. Wade ruling that barred states from outlawing abortion.
Kitchens expected to rule on Gibbs case
Lowndes County Circuit Court Judge Jim Kitchens is expected to make a decision on the fate of a Columbus woman accused of depraved heart murder.
Lawyers seek dismissal in stillborn-death case
A Mississippi woman who gave birth to a stillborn child at age 16 is challenging a “depraved heart murder” charge that was filed against her by prosecutors who said her cocaine use killed the baby.
Lawyer: Defendant also had buttocks injections
A woman charged with depraved-heart murder in the illegal cosmetic injection death of another woman had received the same kind of shots in her buttocks more than 10 times and didn’t know they could be deadly, her lawyer said Wednesday during opening statements.