into law that will make it a second-degree murder offense for those who distribute or manufacture illegal drugs that lead to an overdose death.
“If we had had second-degree murder charges available at the time of my son’s death, they would have been more likely to investigate that because of the higher crime,” Snodgrass said. “So, previous to this law, many times people look at drug overdoses as accidental, and now we look at them as drug-induced homicides.”
“We also know that these kinds of laws are extremely taxing to law enforcement and put even more pressure on public defender resources, particularly in public defender agencies, where the number of public defenders who have experience with complex felony drug cases are pretty limited.”
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