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She went to prison for her miscarriage. Now she's won $1.6 million from a rural Nevada county. - The Nevada Independent
The settlement also returns her infant’s ashes after years of litigation over a 1911 Nevada law that civil rights lawyers call uniquely punitive.
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A woman from Nevada, in the United States, who was convicted and spent two years in prison after suffering a miscarriage received a compensation of $1.6 million, about R$ 80 million, from Humboldt County, according to The Independent. Patience Rousseau was charged with manslaughter on the basis of a 1911 state law and was convicted in 2021, after her defense showed that the authorities had failed to prove that she had caused the pregnancy to cea…
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The Independent (US)Nevada mom convicted of manslaughter for miscarriage awarded $1.6m in settlement
Patience Rousseau was convicted under an arcane 1911 statute ‘that was on the books before women were even allowed to vote in Nevada,’ her attorney said
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