A pregnant woman charged with murder and jailed in Florida wants out of prison on the grounds that her unborn baby is innocent and "held unlawfully," a lawyer said Thursday.
The mother, Natalia Harrell, 24, has been in jail for some seven months and faces a murder charge after fatally shooting another woman while taking an Uber in Miami last July.Harrell had a gun in her purse and "feared for her life and that of her unborn child," according to the petition filed last week.
Last June, a pregnant woman in Texas who was ticketed for driving in a high-occupancy carpool lane argued that her unborn child should be counted as a second passenger.
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