Jury Deadlocked in Breast-Milk Death Trial
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Riverside County jurors weighing a murder charge against a Perris woman accused of killing her infant son by feeding him drug-tainted breast milk told the judge Wednesday that they were deadlocked. But Superior Court Judge Patrick F. Magers sent them back into deliberations.
In 2003, Amy Leanne Prien was convicted of second-degree murder in the death of her 3-month-old son, who authorities say had high levels of methamphetamine in his system when he died in January 2002.
A state appeals court threw out the conviction after finding the trial judge had given the jury inaccurate instructions.
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