Split 8th Circuit:  Drug-Taking Indian Mom Can Be Charged With Manslaughter

Mealey's (July 9, 2019, 1:41 PM EDT) -- ST. PAUL, Minn. — An Indian woman whose infant son died soon after being born due to toxicity from the drugs she took while pregnant can be charged with involuntary manslaughter, a divided Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel held July 5 in reversing a trial court’s dismissal of the woman’s indictment (United States v. Samantha Flute, No. 17-3727, 8th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 20052)....