{"id":3019,"date":"2006-03-16T04:43:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-16T04:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3019"},"modified":"2017-12-21T11:29:55","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T17:29:55","slug":"if-a-child-dies-nearby-its-a-felony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/16\/if-a-child-dies-nearby-its-a-felony\/","title":{"rendered":"If A Child Dies Nearby, It&#8217;s a Felony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/neighborhoods\/stories.nsf\/news\/story\/79892FF50124C5738625712E004EB5F4?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">The solution<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Federal prosecutors say the use and manufacture of methamphetamine by a Jefferson County man contributed to the death of his infant daughter in 2003. If a judge agrees, 28-year-old James G. Hayes could spend 30 years behind bars.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The problem?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The death of 4-week-old Jersie N. Hayes was reported to authorities on Jan. 21, 2003 by Hayes&#8217; girlfriend, Kristy Toczylowski, who is the mother of four children with Hayes. The child was found in bed at the couple&#8217;s home on Treeview Lane, south of Fenton.<\/p>\n<p><\/i><b>[redacted by blogger]<\/b> even though an autopsy on the child proved inconclusive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The missing ingredient, the magical summation that this blogger withheld to demonstrate the absurdity of the charge?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Prosecutors believe the dangerous chemicals use to make meth contributed to Jersie&#8217;s death<\/b>, even though an autopsy on the child proved inconclusive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Holy crimoly, I hope that the freaking <i>toxicology and pathology<\/i> classes that they teach in law school to students with political science undergraduate degrees include actual autopsies so that the ADAs can get diggin&#8217; in the morgue to overcome what the actual <i>coroner<\/i> says.<\/p>\n<p>Because I&#8217;d hate to think our legal system relies upon creative higher-office seekers and the various incarnations of television&#8217;s <i>CSI<\/i> for this illumination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The solution: Federal prosecutors say the use and manufacture of methamphetamine by a Jefferson County man contributed to the death of his infant daughter in 2003. If a judge agrees, 28-year-old James G. Hayes could spend 30 years behind bars. The problem? The death of 4-week-old Jersie N. Hayes was reported to authorities on Jan. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18846,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions\/18846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}