Nov. 28 – Daily Herald
Professor Diane Kaplan quoted:
“The outcome depends on how much sympathy the prosecutor or judge has for her,” said Diane Kaplan, a professor at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago who is preparing a nationwide legal analysis of cases involving mothers who abandon or kill their infants. “It is reasonable that a judge will not want to create a precedent that encourages immigrants to come to the U.S. and abandon their newborns because of cultural stigmas from their home countries.”
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