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Just Mercy: Chapter 12
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What is Marsha Colbey's family and life situation?
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What happens with her pregnancy?
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How did Marsha come to be charged with capital murder?
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In court, Kathleen Enstice's diagnosis is discredited. Despite this, what sort of evidence does the prosecution present to secure a conviction?
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Although America is a world power, we have a high rate of infant mortality. What is one reason for this?
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How else has "bad parenting" been criminalized?
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Marsha Colbey is sent to the Julia Tutwiler Prison for women. What is ironic about this prison and who it's named for?
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Just Mercy: Chapter 12 (Answer Key)
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What is Marsha Colbey's family and life situation?She and her husband are poor and temporarily out of work because of hurricane Ivan. They have six kids and live in a small trailer. At age 43, Marsha becomes pregnant with her seventh kid (228).
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What happens with her pregnancy?She can't afford prenatal care and it turns out she has placental abruption. The pregnancy ends in a stillbirth (229-230)
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How did Marsha come to be charged with capital murder?A suspicious neighbor called the police and they found the baby's grave. A forensic pathologist, Kathleen Enstice, exhumed the body and declared the baby had been born alive, but she did not even perform an autopsy (230-231).
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In court, Kathleen Enstice's diagnosis is discredited. Despite this, what sort of evidence does the prosecution present to secure a conviction?Ad hominem attacks—they bring up that she was a former drug user. They cast her as a bad parent because of this and because the trailer was not tidy and she hadn't obtained prenatal care (232).
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Although America is a world power, we have a high rate of infant mortality. What is one reason for this?Many poor women cannot get prenatal and postnatal care.
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How else has "bad parenting" been criminalized?Alabama made it a felony to expose a child to a "dangerous environment." This law has been applied in such a way that women have been prosecuted for living in communities with drug problems; essentially they are prosecuted for being poor (it's not like an
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Marsha Colbey is sent to the Julia Tutwiler Prison for women. What is ironic about this prison and who it's named for?It's named for a woman who advocated for humane treatment of prisoners, but it's an over-crowded, horrible place (235).
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