“They believed strongly that they were helping a friend at a time of dire need.” “They’re being thrust into the public arena, with their financial well-being at risk,” he said. Carpenter, the experience of being sued has been difficult, said their lawyer, Rusty Hardin. In Nebraska, prosecutors used Facebook messages between a mother and daughter to bring charges against them after the daughter’s abortion.įor Ms. Silva’s ex-wife, said he searched her phone without her consent and read their private messages.Ībortion-rights advocates have raised the alarm over how private information might be used in both civil and criminal cases against people who have abortions, and those who help them. Carpenter, who are close friends of Brittni Silva, Mr. Silva for invasion of privacy in addition to offering a number of defenses to his claims. This week, two of the women, Jackie Noyola and Amy Carpenter, filed their response in court: They are countersuing Mr. Both sides view it as a test case aimed at discouraging anyone from helping women access abortion in states where the procedure is now banned or severely restricted. In the post-Roe era, the suit horrified abortion-rights advocates and galvanized opponents. The suit alleged that the termination of the pregnancy qualified as wrongful death under state law, and he presented text messages between his ex-wife and the women as evidence. The maximum charge for second-degree murder, however, is 40 years.In March, a Texas man, Marcus Silva, sued three women for $1 million each after they helped his ex-wife obtain an abortion last summer using pills. Chauvin has no criminal history, he would receive a 12.5-year sentence for the top charge if the judge followed Minnesota’s sentencing guidelines. Chauvin’s sentence depends on how Judge Peter A. And both coexist easily with committing an assault.Īn appeals court could disagree with this analysis and throw out one or more of the counts.
In fact, “eminently dangerous” is a synonym for unreasonably risky. To streamline the language a bit, “committing an assault” and “committing an act that is eminently dangerous to other persons” and “creating an unreasonable risk” can all go together. Chauvin committed also seem compatible with one another. The separate acts the jury had to find Mr. Chauvin (the legal term of art is “mens rea”) that would cover all three charges. So the jury could have determined a state of mind for Mr. Neither murder charge required the jury to find that Mr.
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